Italian North Aegean

During the Italo-Turkish War, Italy captured the North Aegean islands and won a battle against the Turks off the coast of Beirut.

What if Italy retained the North Aegean islands like it did the Dodecanese?

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During the Italo-Turkish War, Italy captured the North Aegean islands and won a battle against the Turks off the coast of Beirut.

What if Italy retained the North Aegean islands like it did the Dodecanese?


It will piss off Greece. But it might be better for the Ottomans as the Greek Navy cannot harras the Ottoman Coast in the Balkan Wars.

Beirut was a raid, not an actualy conquest and not a lasting one.
 
While keeping Rhodes didn't? Bombarding Corfu after WWI?

I think the more momentous problems would be an even larger local population since the larger it is, the more likely it is to get restive, and the complications come 1940.

I never said it didn't... :noexpression:

The situation here is that Italy taking the islands on the Anatolian coast and the Dardanelles pretty much prevents Greece from using the Aegean as their own lake for their Navy. Rhodes only blocked a certain part that could be avoided by the Greeks. It doesn't work like that when the Entire Anatolian Aegean Coast is under Italian Naval control. Especially when the Greeks have their own designs on Ottoman Territory and it can't be properly executed with the Italians blocking it.
 
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