Read this idea in another thread:
How plausible is the stuff I bolded? It does seem intriguing to have a domino effect carry the Turkish model of government into the Balkans, and then into the Levant. And then Turkey even continues to meddle there as if they were still Ottomans. I'm kind of skeptical of the idea, really, but I think it's worth discussing about.
First off, Slovenia (plus Istra and Trieste, and maybe little bits of Croatia as punishment for the pro-Nazi Ustase) becomes one of those ridiculously wealthy, totally neutral Alpine states. Slovenia was a card-carrying member of the Alpine Elite as late as 1917, and they absolutely hated the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Without Tito, they would be allowed to go their own way.
It's also very likely that the Muslims in Bosnia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Albania would see Kemalist Turkey as the model for how to build their state. I could see the Turks pushing to have all of this lumped into a single nation, probably called "The Republic of Yugoslavia".
This state, in turn, would be a wonderful inspiration for Syria/Lebanon/Palestine when they get their independence. I wonder if the Turks would try to carve out the boundaries of Syria/Lebanon/Palestine so that all the Muslims were in one nation and all the Jews and Marionites were in another. Considering how the Turks handled the Armenians, I don't see this going much better than in OTL.
The remainder of slavic lands -- call it the Kingdom of Serbocroatia -- would be a very, very tempting target for the Soviets to try to turn into a puppet state.
The remaining non-slavic lands -- Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria -- never much liked the Russians. They never much liked each other, either. Working out their differences would be a task on par with the EEC's task of warming the French and Germans to each other. The result? A bipolar European Union, with two "cores" of original members.
How plausible is the stuff I bolded? It does seem intriguing to have a domino effect carry the Turkish model of government into the Balkans, and then into the Levant. And then Turkey even continues to meddle there as if they were still Ottomans. I'm kind of skeptical of the idea, really, but I think it's worth discussing about.