[Ottoman AH] - Stronger Turkic plantation across the Middle East?

See above. Could the Ottomans have managed a greater settling into the likes of the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Cyprus, Mesopotamia and Yemen than OTL, enough to subsume or outnumber "native" Arab, Aramean, Assyrian and Jewish communities by the 1900s? Would it at all have been to their benefit? What would have the long term effects been? Not only of Turks, but also Albanians, Caucasian Muslims, Circassians, Kurds, Turkmen, etc...

In OTL there was 1.5 million Egyptian Turks as of 1993, 3 million Iraqi Turkemen as of 2013, as much as 3.5 million Syrian Turkmen in Syria, 60K Jordanian Turks, 80K Lebanese Turks, as many as 160K Saudi Turks, and as many as 100K Yemeni Turks.

In addition, there were as many as 7 million "Muhajir Turks" who migrated to the Ottoman Empire from 1783 to 1914 from formerly Ottoman territories. The bulk of them were settled in Anatolia and by the 1930s another 2 million of them migrated from neighboring countries or regions like the Balkans or Caucasus into the Republic of Turkey. These numbers were not inconsiderable considering that the Muslim population of the Ottoman Empire in 1914 numbered around 15 million.
 
Funny thing is that the title and subject in this thread could be transported into the post 1900 board to discuss a demographic transition in the Ottoman Empire. Oh well.

It would depend if the region in question had become depopulated or not. If so than Turks could move in and settle the land. The Arabs are not just going to become Turkish like the Christian populations of the Ottoman Empire because assimilation works differently between populations have have different religions or share religions. Where there was land available, Turks did move there. That is the origin of the "Turkman" ethnic group. The other problem is that a lot of Turks would want to live in the Balkans instead of the Middle East. It is just a more habitable region.

Also, Egypt almost deserves it's own thread. An ethnic and cultural disconnect between the ruling population and the peasant population is nothing new in Egyptian history.
 
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See above. Could the Ottomans have managed a greater settling into the likes of the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Cyprus, Mesopotamia and Yemen than OTL, enough to subsume or outnumber "native" Arab, Aramean, Assyrian and Jewish communities by the 1900s? Would it at all have been to their benefit? What would have the long term effects been? Not only of Turks, but also Albanians, Caucasian Muslims, Circassians, Kurds, Turkmen, etc...

In OTL there was 1.5 million Egyptian Turks as of 1993, 3 million Iraqi Turkemen as of 2013, as much as 3.5 million Syrian Turkmen in Syria, 60K Jordanian Turks, 80K Lebanese Turks, as many as 160K Saudi Turks, and as many as 100K Yemeni Turks.

In addition, there were as many as 7 million "Muhajir Turks" who migrated to the Ottoman Empire from 1783 to 1914 from formerly Ottoman territories. The bulk of them were settled in Anatolia and by the 1930s another 2 million of them migrated from neighboring countries or regions like the Balkans or Caucasus into the Republic of Turkey. These numbers were not inconsiderable considering that the Muslim population of the Ottoman Empire in 1914 numbered around 15 million.

Up until 1878 the Ottoman focus was on the Balkans. A theory for Turkification of the Middle East would be... more conversions of Slavs and Greeks and assimilate them among the Turkish population. Their descendants will migrate to the Levant and/or Mesopotamia and thus increasing the 'Turkish' population.

Northern Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon and Latakia would be the best targets to have majority Turkish population. The population there isn't that high.
 
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