Knowing Stalin he’s going to get so paranoid of any Turks in the Caucasus that he’ll expel him. Not the first time he’s ethnically cleansed people out of paranoia.
In OTL Jews had to leave French and British controlled colonies after dealing with persecution after the establishment of Israel. I can see furious locals taking matters into their own hands regardless of what the Allies will do.
Well, depending on what would be the advancing Soviet army's behavior towards the civil population in the taken/occupied territories, it could happen that, like happened IOTL, that the expelling would happen as a matter of fact, by the fleeing populations seeking to escape from the incoming Soviet armies...
Also assuming Stalin has plans to establish an expanded Armenia like he considered in OTL a lot of people are going to be displaced for sure.
Indeed, Stalin could decide to displace/deporting them instead of outright expelling any 'mistrusted minority population' as Stalin did on various occasions.
Interesting question... I'd assume that they either would be crewed by their original Regia Marina crews and/or by mixed Italian/allied crews...
I think independence is hard but some kind of autonomy is possible. A lot will depend on the question of Mosul and soviet gains in Anatolia and how the UK bargains in reaction to them.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Soviets establish an independent Kurdish state which will absolutely force the UK's hand in the matter. And honestly an autonomous Assyrian area is much more likely only because I don't think a landlocked Assyrian state will be viable unlike Israel even if the Assyrians are just as armed to the teeth.
The problem with this is that most Kurdish majority regions are under attack or occupied by the Wallies. The Soviets are far from them
If I recall they're mostly those close to the Iraqi border. Maybe Stalin supports Kurdish rebels as a way to get through Turkey faster. And that can cause an incredible WTF moment with the other Allies especially the British.
Turkey hasn't invaded there so I highly doubt it. Most likely the Meskhetian Turks are the ones getting the boot.
And that enclave of the Azeri SSR is transferred to the Armenian SSR as well.
I will see that for sure. Maybe even connect it to the rest of Armenia.
Are we sure about that with Greece? The population exchange is never really given much detail besides Kemal wanting to exchange all Muslims and Christians, while Venizelos wanted something much more discerning regarding pro Greek Muslims and Christian minorities. The whole event kinda got glossed over unless I’m missing something. We don’t know if there were any exceptions like OTL Western Thracians, or if local Turks tried to pass themselves off as one of the pro Greek groups. I’m not saying there’s that large an amount but I’m not sure if it’s zero.
