Continuing Independence of Pashalik of Yanina

What would be necessary for the semi-autonomous Eyalet (province) of Yanina, under the governorship of the Muslim Albanian Ali Pasha of Tepelena to endure and become a proper state after the collapse of Ottoman authority in the Balkans?
 
What would be necessary for the semi-autonomous Eyalet (province) of Yanina, under the governorship of the Muslim Albanian Ali Pasha of Tepelena to endure and become a proper state after the collapse of Ottoman authority in the Balkans?

I think the best time would be when Ali Pasha made an alliance with Napoleon I of France who had established François Pouqueville as his representative. He switched sides and joined the British when the French signed a treaty with the Russians promising to carve up the Ottoman Empire. Maybe if he had not decided to switch sides and turn on the central Ottoman government right then and there?
 
I think the best time would be when Ali Pasha made an alliance with Napoleon I of France who had established François Pouqueville as his representative. He switched sides and joined the British when the French signed a treaty with the Russians promising to carve up the Ottoman Empire. Maybe if he had not decided to switch sides and turn on the central Ottoman government right then and there?

What could have been done to keep Ali on the side of the French? Could the Tilsit treaty could be averted, or would the prevention of Mahmud II ascending the throne for someone less able be needed to buy the rogue Eyalet time to establish itself as a separate principality?
 
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What could have been done to keep Ali on the side of the French? Could the Tilsit treaty could be averted, or would the prevention of Mahmud II ascending the throne for someone less able be needed to buy the rogue Eyalet time to establish itself as a separate principality?

I don't think it was exactly the Tilsit Treaty itself that was a problem but that Ali Pasha was completely left out of the negotiations between Napoleon and the Russian Tsar who plotted to split up the Ottoman lands among themselves and that infuriated Ali to side with the British. And it would help a lot for Ali Pasha's cause (as well as the numerous other secessionist movements in the Empire such as the one in Bosnia in the 1830s) for someone far less capable than Mahmud II, someone who isn't so in tune with the idea of political and economic reforms, to take the throne.
 
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