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What if: The De Bunsen Committee's suggestion for the devolution of the Ottoman Empire following World War was a policy taken by the Britain and to an extent its allies for the restructuring of power in the Middle East?

This calls for the decentralization of the Ottoman Centralized state into a federalist system whereas, though the Entente would take snippits of OE territory the restructuring would include four basic "Eyalets" or states which were Anatolia, Armenia, Palestine-Levant, and a Jazireh-Iraq (Arabia+Iraq).

The set up would have given Turks control of Foreign Policy matters and Britain would have helped correct flaws to the modernization proccess within the OE as well as allow the Turks and various peoples help themselves. Also possibly ease tensions bewteent he 'Eyalets'? Maybe these states could likely be the backdrop for future division of independent states from the OE?

The Brits would be in favor in that it would require less military prescence on their part in the region, the only major problems comes from the question if the Brits could establish local governments and the opinions of the French/Russians and various nationalist groups (Sa'ud, Kemal, and such) and how they wanted the region.

Would the problems of the Middle East be as similar as they were today?

What I see if a thing were to happen, besides a diplomatic fallout with France would be quite a few years of building in the region as certain nationalists groups fight for their own power, but it does seem possible that these groups would fit into the structured 4 eyalets so a break up of the Ottoman Emprie seems likely to happen anyway. I wonder if Sa'ud would rule in Eastern Arabia and Iraq and the Hashemites in the Hejaz and Transjordan-Levant?
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