DBWI fashoda crisis didn't erupt into war


Yeah, the state authorities in Syria and the overall Phoenician federal government both blamed the whole thing on Israel. It didn't exactly help smooth things over after the last war.

Mind you, neither group would exist if not for Turkey. The Ottoman Sultanate's always wanted to weaken Phoenicia - especially since the Phoenicians gave Kurds in their territory autonomy, it rather upset things in Turkey - and after the Cyprus War in the 70s and French intervention on the Greek side, they wanted revenge on the French too. Hard to blame them, I suppose, after the French sent half their navy to the bottom of the Mediterranean, but a whole load of innocent people have died in Syria.

OOC: I'd established earlier that Syria was part of a larger, French-backed Arab state.
The 'Ottoman Sultanate of Turkey' is all that's left of the old Empire :D
 
The Kurdish atonomy thing pissed off the turks quite a bit, they worked hard to create a Kurdish buffer state after the second rebellions. The Kurdish refugees from Syria and Iran had the effect of strengthening their main ally in the region and gave the turks leverage to get the Kurds to lower gas prices.

For you outsiders of the middle east conflict heres an explanation of what happened. Once upon a time the Turks controled all of the middle east, the first world war happened and the Arabs revolted.

Some of the biggest revolts were in palastine where the zionists were buying up land to create a jewish home land. The Jews helped the turks maintain control over the levant and got the atonomus region of Israel as a reward. The arabs of the region were forced by the turks to leave their homes in a movement known as the march of tears.

After the war things were looking up for the ottomans they found oil in a whole bunch of places and were getting solvent, and then the Russians went crazy and started the genocidal second world war. A good chunk of Antolia's population died in russian death camps before the russians lost.

Then the French back the second Arab revolts, the turks didn't have enough strength to hold onto the region but they were able to foricibly move around the ethnic groups of the middle east and create as many poison pills to screw over the Arabs as possible.

The three big ones are Lebanon, Israel and Kurdistan.

Kurdistan was formed as a buffer state to protect turky from Arab invasion and terrorist attacks. These days Kurdistan is a successful liberal democracy and a firm ally/junior partner to the turks. With the understanding that while instanbull may screw them on trade deals their Arab neighbors are a much bigger threat.

Lebanon is basically where the Ottomans forcibly relocated all of the christians of the middle east. It forms a buffer state between Syria and Isreal. Their.... pretty damned bad. Their a christian theocracy where if you don't pray the right way you cant vote, hold office, or have most jobs in the good times.

Their national idenity is heavily inspired by/based on the crusader states and their a pretty horrible regieme. Israel and Lebonon tolerate each other and have only had one war, with lasted three days...

Over a god damned goat.

Israel was created by the zionist movement during the late 1800s and gained official reconition by the Ottomans as a punishment for the local Arabs after the first revolt. Their population went up by five million during the interwar/war period after the Polish and ukrainian expulsions and the refugees from eastern europe/russia.

During the war they backed turky and were given independence by the turks during the second revolt as one of their many posion pills. There are other Turkish client states but they can be pretty small.

Israel is a liberal democracy, together Turky, Lebonon, Israel, Kurdistan and Iran form a quasi anti arab allence that is backed by the Brits, the germans, and the Chinese. (The chinese are still pissed about the plains hitting the Shanghai towers.)


The french allies in the region include Syria/the Phoenition central government, Arabia- which claims every thing in the middle east but really only controls the Arab Penisular... Currently suffering from multiple secession movements. They border Kurdistan to the north, Iran to the east and Jordan to the west.

(Jordans a Shia country the turks created, they try very hard to be neutral. They do not reconize Israel, officially pretending it does not exist. Hasnt been in a war since 68. Resents both the turks and the Arabs for kicking them out of their former homes.)

Arabia and Syria are French allies, as much as I rag on the Syrians their human rights violations are no where near as bad as Arabia or Lebonon.

This is a gross simplification but this is the cluster F that is the current middle east.
 
Bad news guys

The Italian space program has lost two of its astronauts today, some thing went wrong with the oxigen tanks and the whole thing blew up. To the Italian posters you have my sympathy. You lost two very brave men today.
 
Bad news guys

The Italian space program has lost two of its astronauts today, some thing went wrong with the oxigen tanks and the whole thing blew up. To the Italian posters you have my sympathy. You lost two very brave men today.

OOC: Why the hell would this sort of thing ever be posted to a WI thread about the Fashoda War? No one talks like this. DBWIs are not about discussing alt-current events, just like how we wouldn't talk about Daesh when discussing the ramifications of a different Franco-Prussian War.

IC: Terrible news, but this belongs in chat. Keep it there.
 
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