Neutral Ottomans in world war 1 tries to Retake Balkans

Ottomans remain neutral in world war 1 and tries to take the Balkans starting With Bulgaria .would any major powers join the war. could the Ottomans at least partially succeed
 
I don't see that any great power would accept that. And would even Ottomans want Balkans back? It much depends when POD is, why Ottomans remains neutral and who win Great War.
 
If they attack a beliggerent country they can no longer be considered neutral.....
Serbia is allready in the war if OE attacks them then they are de facto part of the Central powers.....
 
If they attack a beliggerent country they can no longer be considered neutral.....
Serbia is allready in the war if OE attacks them then they are de facto part of the Central powers.....
They could go after neutral Bulgaria and greece
 
Considering the fact that WW1 in Eastern Front was ultimately an anticolonial conflict, attempt to re-impose Muslim rule over Christian nations wouldn't really cut in the world of 1910s.
 
If the Ottomans somehow arrive in a neutral corner during the war, they're very quickly going to realize that this is a monstrously big war and is going to be hideously expensive. Starting anything in the Balkans will only drag it into the larger conflict.
 
Could the Austrians conquer Serbia in 1914? The Austrians could do worse on the Eastern Front simultaneously and reinforce borders with neutral countries to deter the Balkans from Entente participation. What would be the consequences if Italy, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Romania stayed neutral in WW1?
 
A plan for Ottomans:Year 1914-The Balkanic War
1.Day 1 : A secret operation starts for invading South Bulgaria and Greece.
2.Day 2: Big reinforcements and an invasion on Greece building barracks on conquested territory as fast as possible.
3.Day 3:Until buildings are done they ally with Austro-Hungary For Invasion of Serbia and Bulgary.
4.Day 4:Some buildings are almost completed fast.
5.Day 5:Russia gets involved against Ottomans
6.Day 6:After 1 week of invasions troops are moving back stopping every invasion
7.Day 7-15:A big invasion over Bulgarians,Serbians and Austro-Hungary (Balkan part)
6.Day 15 (a kind of D-day):Ottoman troops are landing in Crimeea over 15 days of fighting.
7.Day 18:Sevastopole is Surrending
8.Day 20:Invasion of Kazakstan and Syria.
9.Day 30 (over 10 days of invasion):Romania strikes and with Ottoman help they take back the lost parts of Great Romania
10.Day 35:Austro-Hungary quits the balkans
11.Day 36:Entente decides that Ottomans are too powerful over their allies
12.Day 37:Ottomans are forced to quit Crimeea.
13.Day 39:Ottomans are forced by Austro-Hungary to give back the lose points
14.Day 40:Austro-Hungary loses Budapesta,Romania strikes
15.Day 43:Austro-Hungary gets acctualy broken in:Austria and Hungary
16.Day 44:Germany Decides to stop the French Front for Destroying Austria
17.Day 50:Almost 2 months of fights,Ottomans conquested most of Balkans
18.Day 55:Germany destroies french east front and Austria's west front.
19.Day 56:Osterreich Hungars decides to say that they surrender creating a new Republic
20.Day 57:Osterreich Hungars are no longer existing
21.Day 58: Deustch Kaiserreich is the only existing reich
22.Day 59:Austria surrenders
23.Day 60:Over 2 months of fight Ottomans decides to move foward in Africa
24.Day 61:A little problem going on and Ottomans failed to do the invasion as Germany and British advanced on 2 ways.
25.Day 69:After days of fight Ottomans are broking again and Romania decides to broke the alliance
26.Day 71:The official day when Ottomans surrenders and Romania frees a part of Hungary without Budapest.
27.Day 72:The balkans are freed as Osterreich failed and Kaiserreich stopped the battles the French advanced into Berlin as Germany were more intresed to get in Viena
 

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That's a plan, all right. Not a very good plan, not much of a realistic plan (building barracks on occupied territory? Is this a Real-Time Strategy Computer Game?), but it's a plan.
 
How do you figure?

The whole war begun when a small anti-imperial nationalistic political movement (Black Hand) challenged the Austro-Hungarian imperial status quo in Bosnia - the only remaining colonized part of the Balkans after the Ottoman Empire had been forcefully evicted from her remaining imperial territories in Europe.

Then three Empires went to war in eastern Europe, and the battles of this war were fought out almost entirely in territories where the civilian population was not from the dominant nationality of the respective empires - in the colonized areas of the empire. The battles raged on in the lands where the majority of the civilian population was ethnically and religiously mixed and as a rule mostly Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, east European Jewish or Armenian - instead of German or Russian.

Then the imperial control in the borderlands begun to gradually and rapidly crumble, and the imperial states initially replied with increased repression and violence, especially in the cases of Russia and Ottoman Empire. And as the state lost control to the monopoly of violence and old authorities crumbled, new political movements and "violent entrepreneurs" sprung up all over eastern Europe, further increasing the cycle of violence and destabilizing of the old status quo. The following social disaster was accompanied by massive refugee movements, Balkanization of former imperial territories, ultimately ending with the process of building new states out of the ruins of the old empires - this process was very much still unfinished in many parts of eastern Europe when WW2 begun.
 
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