Germaniac
Donor
What if the Ottoman Empire falls apart or are partitioned? How much does that change it?
Without WW1 I don't believe the Ottomans fall... if they do the middle east will be very different. For Europe their primary goal was to maintain payments of the Ottoman debt. I thinks you could see something like a state run like the Public debt administration. But seriously i just cannot see Europe agreeing on a division of spoils without war.
This could lead to a massive amount of violence and fracturing in the ME and extremism could definitely grow out of that.