A buffer state, and to put Assyrians (or any other Christian group) who won't convert from other places from within the Empire, where in the future the Rhomani has the population to replace them in Northern Mesoptima/ Inner Syria.B444 would need to confirm but I think Turks comprise a majority of Southern Mesopotamia and a plurality in Central Mesopotamia. Not to mention that the number of Assyrians is likely to be far to small to be able to hold any kind of state together without a lot of support, at which point why not just annex it?
The ratio of how much of Mesoptima is Arabic, Turkic, Kurdish in Central and Southern Mesoptima would need to be confirmed, then the groups can be divided upon religious/ethnic group and played against each other. Rhomani could focus on breaking the Ottoman hold on the Persian Gulf with Oman since the Ottomans control most of Eastern Arabia/Bahrain.
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