AHC/WI - Russian Kurdistan

The challenge is to have the Russian Empire conquer the Kurdish regions from both the Ottomans and the Persians during the various Russo-Ottoman and Russo-Persian wars, which would also likely entail ATL Russia additionally managing to conquer at most much of Western Armenia as well as Persian Azerbaijan.

Aside from ATL Kurdistan potentially becoming a constituent republic of Soviet Union later on along with ATL United Armenia and Azerbaijan (with possible Assyrian and Pontus Greek SSRs), what other consequences would there likely be?
 
It is possible they (or later on either the ATL Bulgarians or ATL Greeks) could take Constantinople, though would not want to completely wank the ATL Russian Empire compared to OTL as envision their ATL gains being largely limited to parts of West Asia.
 
For the British it is too close to Persian oilfields. Other than that it is too much mountains to effectivly rule it. In reality Russia would go for Tabriz which is easier to rule. 'Kurdistan' should have something to earn money otherwise holding it is an financial blackhole.
 
It would be somewhat uncomfortably close for the British, at least it would be easier for the British and French with the ATL Sykes-Picot agreement due to Kurdistan and United Armenia being in the Russian sphere of influence (albeit in practice probably effectively annexed similar to OTL Armenia. Georgia and Azerbaijan) though there may likely be subsequent boundary agreements between the British, French and Russians.
 
That area is kind of like the Austro-Hungarian Empire; Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Azerbaijanis, Georgians, Kurds, Turks, Iranians, and Arabs mixed all through out there. Do you guys think the Imperial Russians would try to straighten it out into ethnostates? I think they tried this a little bit with Azerbaijan and Armenia in OTL.
 
That area is kind of like the Austro-Hungarian Empire; Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Azerbaijanis, Georgians, Kurds, Turks, Iranians, and Arabs mixed all through out there. Do you guys think the Imperial Russians would try to straighten it out into ethnostates? I think they tried this a little bit with Azerbaijan and Armenia in OTL.

It is possible. Would also be interesting to see what happens to the Alevis and other Shia sects in this scenario given they would pretty much be the largest minority group in ATL Turkey, would the Ottomans have sought to further escalate their persecution of Alevis and other Shia sects compared to OTL?
 
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