Different Ottoman Break Up

Might be a little ASB but its a bit of an intersting question. So after WWI the Allies break up the Ottomans like OTL, but then they do nothing. No randomly drawn boundaries, no Balfour Agreement, no inital seeds of Israel, they just leave it alone (don't worry why, they just do).

What happens?

I can see Turkey staying about the same with Ataturk doing his thing and keeping the ethnicly Turkish areas together. But what about the rest?

Would the Shia in Iraq join with the Persians or form their own Shia kingdom that could be a potential flash point?

Possible Kurdistan?

Possible Semi-Caliphate uniting the Sunni Arabs from Syria to Arabia? Would the House of Saud or maybe someone else manage to become the new head honcho of this state?

Or would it just descend into a bunch of small kingdoms and theocracies, maybe one democratic experiment.

What do yall think?
 
Persia is very weak and confused at this time, tho again that might depend on whether the Allies withdraw all their forces from there too. However, its most likely that either it is too weak to do anything, or it falls into an earlier civil war type of scenario. Possibly someone like Reza Pahlavi might manage to overthrow the Shah and be proclaimed in his place and THEN set about looking at the Shia areas of OTL Iraq, but I don't think it was on the cards in the short term

(tho I could be wrong !)

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Grey Wolf
 

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Turkey might be even stronger if Ataturk don't have to fight the allies, anyone see Northern Iraq turkish, and the Hatay area Turkish already from the beginning??
 

Keenir

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Might be a little ASB but its a bit of an intersting question. So after WWI the Allies break up the Ottomans like OTL, but then they do nothing.
I can see Turkey staying about the same with Ataturk doing his thing and keeping the ethnicly Turkish areas together.

...which includes Greece and Bulgaria. good luck on that. :D;)

Possible Kurdistan?

nope.

for one thing, neither the Turks nor the Iranians will let that happen.

Possible Semi-Caliphate uniting the Sunni Arabs from Syria to Arabia?

except that many Kurds are Sunni....and many Kurds are Shia.
 
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