Ottoman Hegemony a tl

;)hello fellow AH members this is my first tl in the after 1900 forum. I would like to tell you that in this tl, Prince Mehmed Ziyaeddin the eldest son of Mehmed V becomes interested in the miltiary and modernization, as well as retaking glory for the Ottomans, he spends less time in the harems and reads books on warfare and goverment and politcs. Now I honestly have no info on how Mehmed lived but in this tl we will say he was born in 1880 so he is now 20 years old in the year 1900. Here is his diary and his tale.

Chapter I: The Boy Mehmet




July 14th 1900-
Dear Diary, as you know it is my birthday today, I have just turned 20. You must know that the other princes are busy wiling their time away in the harems. I detest the fact that those worms would become emperor. No the throne will be mine. However you see I have decided to read up on history, politics, warfare, and government. I am currently reading Machiavellian and Hobbes and Voltaire. However I detest that Locke he is to me a failure. Hobbes on the other hand is a true genius. I am also reading the art of war by Sun Tzu and various military textbooks on European warfare. Those Europeans are as of now the most advanced society and it would be foolish to not adopt their reforms.

Anyway three weeks ago as an early birthday present I convinced my father after great hue and cry to send me to Edirne to learn how to run a province as training. At Edirne I met a postman named Mehmed Talat. Now Talat you see was an ordinary man but he greatly intrigued me. He had come to deliver mail to our palace and when I met him he and I struck up a conversation. Soon he visited the palace every day and as he handed out mail, he and I talked about government and politics. You see Mehmed had big plans. His ideas were quite marvelous and both of us had agreed on so many points. However I disagreed with him about his hatred of Armenians. I didn’t really like the fact that he hated these people. So I am now in my palace after having finished reading some military strategy books. That postman soon stopped appearing and for a long time I am sad that I would never see my acquaintance.

Now you see after finishing a book by Hobbes I started to come up with a plan for my reign. After all why waste time when I had much better things to do. First I plan to continue the assimilation of the ethnic peoples in my empire. Next I would start building rails and roads so that I can get a path for supplying troops. Next I plan to build many new buildings of entertainment and business, so as to plz the people. You see from my reading of Macciavelli I came to understand that the strongest fortress a prince can have is the love of his people, I also wanted absolute power, after all those peasants cannot rule by themselves they are stupid and uneducated a nation cannot be succesful unless it is ruled by a monarch.


Anyway I plan to build schools, factories, and rapidly industrialize my empire. In Europe tensions have been raising between the great powers, I myself envy those euro nations; it was due Austria and Russia that the ottomans suffered so I hated from the bottom of my heart the Austrians. They were scum, I also despise the British for how they seized Egypt and swindled their way into our territory. But It does not really matter because soon I fear a war will break out, it is bound to happen and when it does the great powers will exhaust themselves and once they are weakened and my empire in strength I will launch a counterattack.
I also plan to get rid of our fleet on the waters. You see I realized there is no way we can ever build enough ships to compete with the Royal navy of United Kingdom and Ireland so I came up with a counter plan. I will build many subs at a cheaper price and fortify my coasts. After all no matter how many ships the enemy has if they cannot land their troops their ships are useless. However the problem is that for my fortifications a lot of money will be lost. Thus I plan to first create new businesses and merchants to bring gold to my coffers. Next for the army I will create them in the German military style when I become emperor. WHy because the germans have a proffestional an well trained army that is exxtremly formidable.


I swear to Allah that I will become the greatest Ottoman sultan, and I will bring back glory and prestige to my country.


Signed Prince Mehmet Ziyaadin (future sultan)








Anyway Just to clarify I know that Ziyaadin might not have been born in 1880 but,, could fellow Ah commers go with it. ABout Ziyaadin basically he was a person who loved to read books so he came across Macciavelli and from their soon started reading other books. It is perfectly plausable for this character to excist. However unfortunatly this Mehmet is not the same mehmet as otl, he is a completly different character. Also about edirne I know that Ottoman sultans were confined to the harems but could they have gone out to actually become governors. I am a bit confused on that point because I really am not sure about whether Mehmet would be allowed out of the imperial harems. So plz tell me what you think. I know that some of his ideas are crazy but remember he is still 20 so he has time to improve. Other than that how do people like this tl. I have made it as plausable as I can.


Btw about my other tls they are temprarily on Hiatus because I am suffering from writers block. Sorry:(
 
I know in another thread I took a negative view of the idea that the Ottomans could be a "Superpower", but I thought I'd get this off my chest.

Why do Ottoman timelines often start with "Sultan/Prince X is committed to progress, instead of being confined to the harem", as if the Ottomans already didn't have rulers dedicated to progress.

They didn't lack an impetus for progress, far from it certainly, and did a pretty good job considering their resources.

I'll follow this one with a bit of interest, but that's a bugbear of mine.
 
I know in another thread I took a negative view of the idea that the Ottomans could be a "Superpower", but I thought I'd get this off my chest.

Why do Ottoman timelines often start with "Sultan/Prince X is committed to progress, instead of being confined to the harem", as if the Ottomans already didn't have rulers dedicated to progress.

They didn't lack an impetus for progress, far from it certainly, and did a pretty good job considering their resources.

I'll follow this one with a bit of interest, but that's a bugbear of mine.[/QUOTE
Indeed the Ottomans did a good job but in this tl you have an emepror who is cunning and much smarter than his predeccors. He is a man who follow enlightenment thinking, he has read, jaques, SMith, Voltaire, montesciue, Macchiavellli, and hobbes, he has read art of war and many military textbooks, basically he is one smart dude.
Btw here is the update


Chapter II: The Death of the sultan.



The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire was a man named Abdul Hamid II. However in 1901 Tragedy struck. While on a tour of the Ottoman military in Arabia, an Arabian revolutionary assassinated Abdul. The death of Abdul was a shocking blow to the Empire. Suddenly Mehmet’s father Mehmed became Mehmed the V. Mehmet suddenly found himself as the successor to the Sultanate. Mehmet was overjoyed he was another step closer to his goal. Now after the death of Abdul, Mehmed was suddenly in charge of the Ottoman Empire.
However problems arose, you see Mehmed was extremely stressed out at this point, his father was assassinated he became sultan of a crumbling empire he was in a very bad position. But Mehmed had been suffering of many ailments in his lungs. When doctors gave him a surgery to see what was wrong with his lungs it turned out he had a strange looking tumor. It had infected his lungs and was spreading. The doctors were confused at this abomination and soon had it removed. However terrible consequences waited. The tumor had already spread to other parts of the body and soon by 1906 Mehmed was suffering terribly. He lost weight and was bedridden. He was in no position to rule the empire. So Mehmet was quickly proclaimed at the age of 26 Sultan of the Ottomans after his father stepped down due to this sickness. By 1907 Mehmed had died a horrible death, and after the funeral on December 6th 1907 Mehmet Ziyaad was crowned Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and received the girded sword. Mehmet finally realized his goals he was now the emperor.

January 14th 1907
Dear diary I have finally become emperor of the Ottomans. However I am in a most miserable mood, I have lost my grandpa and my father within a span of a few years. I really am extremely downtrodden, however I must look to the future; I have my goals to realize. (Sob, Sob, Sob) I have only the wonderful works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to console my broken heart.
Signed Mehmet V.

In the year 1907 Sultan Mehmet was what one would call a very different sultan from his preddecors. He soon went to implementing his reforms. He ordered the scrapping of the Ottoman navy. At first many admirals were shocked but he promised them that they would be in charge of the series of coastal defenses he would built after all why need a navy when it was mostly useless. Soon the Ottomans put up for sale many of their warships, for sale, many countries were eager to buy these ships and so Mehmet made millions selling most of the Ottoman Navy.
With this amount of wealth he turned to his main option build a series of coastal defenses. He soon built a series of artillery pieces and bases that would cover the long Ottoman coastline. He would use the funds from each sea province of the empire to construct their coastal defenses. Due to this each province of his empire at sea built his own coastal defenses. By 1909 a string of coastal defenses were built across the Ottoman empire's seaports in the Med.
Mehmet wanted more money so he soon encouraged businesses to rise. He followed the book Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and soon encouraged and promoted the establishment of businesses by rich individuals across his empire. Soon many businesses popped up in the med, and with its resources a variety of different industries were created.
Mehmet was no fool he knew that the other Balkan powers, especially Bulgaria and Greece were growing with rapid military advancements. At this time in 1908 Serbian-Bulgarian tensions were growing to an all time high. Mehmet decided he needed to win the loyalty of his European subjects lest they should decide to side with their brethren. So he soon passed a series of laws that allowed the various ethnicities a lot more freedom than what they had. Mehemet then applied an old Byzantine tactic to weaken the Balkan powers. Have your enemies fight each other. Just recently after the Serbian-Bulgarian war many Serbians still had great resent towards Bulgaria he did everything possible to strenuate tensions among the two powers.
Mehmet knew he needed some buffer states in the European region, so he did the next best thing; he created the proctorates of Bosnia and what remained of Ottoman Macedonia. These two proctorates were basically puppets of the Ottomans, but Mehmet had another use for them, to act as buffer states against his enemies, he killed multiple birds with one stone, the Macedonians, and Bosnians had the autonomy they wanted but were in reality de facto controlled by the Ottoman empire.
Mehmet next created the secret police. They were an organization that was created to counter terrorist activity. The chief targets of these secret police were IMRO better known as the Internal Macedonian revolutionary organization and the Arab freedom movement. The Ottomans knew that Austria Hungary had been eying at stabilizing Serbia for a long time. The Austrians had a brilliant secret police, Mehmet hated the Austrians but he also saw the benefit of using his enemies to fulfill his own goals. So he soon granted trade concessions and free reign in Serbia and Bulgaria to the Austrians. Soon in late 1908 special agents from Austria Hungary soon trained the Secret police better known as the CROAT (Counter revolutionary Organization against terrorists) These members soon were sent into the new republic of Macedonia where they reeked havoc on IMRO supporters by spreading lies and false propaganda and blaming many “Incidents of loots and pillaging” As the fault of the IMRO. By 1910 the IMRO was drastically losing ground as they were seen by what remained of Ottoman Macedonia as hooligans and hoodlums. Mehmet established schools and created new churches and mosques in the Ottoman Balkans. This greatly won him the favor of many of the Balkan people under Ottoman rule.
Mehmet soon ordered every Ottoman military officer to read up books on modern warfare and tactics based on European strategies.
Due to these new businesses the British were eager to establish trade with the newly formed Turkish businesses. Many trade agreemebts were created beetween the two powers.
Soon Turkey spread false telegrams and soon spread rumors against the Austrians. Saying the Austrians were planning to take all the Balkans, conquer Italy, and were evil traitors. These greatly created heatead tensions among Britain and Austria hungary. AH had no idea what was occurring for they still thought of the Ottomans as their aquaintence when in reality the Ottomans were ruining AH reputation.
Mehmet was playing a very dangerous game in Europe, he knew war was coming but he was siding with virtually everybody on the continent. In reality he was manipulating the already established powers by increasing the tensions among the euro powers due to the arms race.
Mehmet turned to the Balkans. He soon had German specialists train and modernize as fast as possible the Ottoman army; he also encouraged construction of rails since 1907. Thus by 1911 Mehmet had roads and train tracks. He then quickly moved most of the Ottoman army to the borders of Macedonia, he split it into two fronts, one was to be led by Enver Pasha who would organize the defense against Bulgaria and Serbia, while Mehemet himself oversaw the defense against Greece and Montegno.
He soon created the Proctorate of Arabia under a Saudi king. He had of course chosen a Saudi who supported Ottomans and so created the Procterate of Arabia. Thus with this successful much of the tensions against Ottoman rule dyed down by 1911( Also helped that the CROATS were wreaking havic to discredit the arab movement). He then established the mutual treaty of friendship among the new proctorates in which they would all link each separate economy and trade together. As well as act as military supply bases and etc. The Bulgarians by 1911 were growing incredibly angry that the Ottomans were thwarting their plans.
The Balkan powers created the Balkan league in 1911 to attack the OE and its proctorates because they viewed the OE as a threat, the still consider OE to be a backwards nation. This was to be a fatal mistake.
By 1911 railroads were being built Ottoman industry and manufacturing was soaring. The OE was in the process of creating an army based on the German model. Much of the OE bases in the Balkans were fortified, the Ottomans had within 5 years were headed down a road of success. However it was still much too soon as Mehmet realized the sad fact, that he could not underestimate the Balkan powers.
I n 1913 the Balkan powers invaded ottoman satellites and territories on pretext of claims on these lands. However Mehmet had been anticipating these attacks for a while and was making defenses prepared at a rapid pace since his crowning as sultan. The fate of the Balkans would forever be decided in the war later known as the Balkan war, fought between the OE, Bosnia, and Macedonia against the combined forces of Serbia, Bulgaria, Montegno, and Greece. The war would decide the fate of the Balkans once and for all.
 
Anyway I would like to make some clarifications in this tl. Basically in 1900 Bosnia Was Annexed by AH but in this tl that does not happen. Likewise OE is able to show a strong enough force that the Greeks and Bulgars were cautious to act and so as of now most of Macedonia belongs to OE.

Basically think of this sultan as an enlightened Monarch. He has read many great works so he is putting those to use.

About the navy, basically Mehmet did not need a navy for many reasons. One:
Even if they were blockaded due to the strategic location of the OE, goods and suplies could be easily traded. They cannot starve to submission due to the food on land.


Then we now get to how Mehmet passed these reforms. basically in this tl the young Turk rev is butterflied away due to said reforms. The Pashas have not been able to take power so OE is still an absoulute monarchy.


Next as you know AH had many interests in Serbia and so it readily helped the
ottomans to creat the CROAT organization. Think of the CROAT as a mix of the CIA/FBI or similiar to the SAS in Britain. Thus these elite operatives hunt down terrorists and spread false rumours discrediting the terrorist movement.
So if you have any other questions or critique plz contribute to this thread.:)
 
Alright guys here is an update on the balkan wars.
Chapter III: The Balkan War

In the year 1913 the Balkan powers launched an invasion of Ottoman proctorates. A Bulgarian force of some 400k men invaded the province of Thrake. However it was a failure. While the Bulgarian army was marching through the forest Enver Pasha and an army of some 300k Ottomans ambushed the Bulgarian force. In the ensuing battle over 200k Bulgarians and some 100k Ottoman troops had been killed. However with the Bulgarian army in retreat Enver reinforced his armies and some million soldiers invaded Bulgaria. By late 1914 Bulgarian resistance was crumbling, Enver won victory after victory, he was what one would call a military genius and brilliant tactician. By March of 1914 Bulgaria’s capital Sophia finally fell after a bitter siege that lasted for months. Meanwhile on the Greek front the Greeks tried an invasion by sea of Edirne. This was a very foolish mistake, in what was later dubbed Sea mammal it failed miserably and much of the Greek navy was destroyed because although they had superiority at sea the ships could not crack the coastal defenses, euro military officers noted down that any invasion by sea to land involving movement of troops agaist heavily fortified coasts has no hope of success the Germans especially took a not of this fact. With the Greek fleet in chaos, the Combined Macedonian and Ottoman army laid siege to Athens under the command of the sultan himself. By July of 1914 Bulgaria and Greece sued for peace. They became proctorates of the Ottomans, allowed to keep their autonomy but were de facto Ottoman puppet states. Meanwhile Serbia quickly sued for peace. Now Russia was the protector of the Slavs and it was enraged at what the Ottomans did. Mehmet knew the Ottomans were too exhausted to fight so he made a deal with Russia. He would give up Rumania and Ottoman Romania, in return for Russian recognition of the new Bulgarian satellite. This was accepted and Romania fell to Russian hands. Finnally with the Balkan wars over, OE had once again retaken control of the Balkans. Through ought the empire massive celebrations were in order as the people rejoiced and Mehmet was soon looked upon as a Prophet of Allah who would lead their country to glory once more.

By 1915 Mehmet had successfully retaken Greece and Bulgaria. Internationally many countries saw the sudden ottoman rise with concern but did nothing. Why the euro powers do nothing, well Tensions had greatly exploded between the central powers and the Entente. So many Euro powers were afraid that should they attack the OE they would leave a weakness for the other bloc to seize. Finally in 1915 the war started. It would be known as WWI. In Hungary the Archduke Franz Ferdinand passed a bill of representation to all Ottoman controlled people. The Hungarians grew enraged. The Russians butted in and informed Austria Hungary of letting Hungary goes in peace. The Austrians refused and Russia declared war on Austria. Germany was dragged in as it declared war on Russia, and France declared war on Austria and Germany. The Great War had finally begun. However throughout this period the OE under Mehmet followed a strict policy of Neutrality. They openly announced they would side with neither side. For the next four years Mehmet would focus on Internal reform, creating a better beurocracy, lowering taxes, and doing everything to win the support of his people and stabilize the Balkans and Middle East. The OE was continuing its modernization and the future was looking bright for the Ottomans once more.

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The pod is too late after 1900's the ottomans cant become a hegemon especialy after losing the balkans. BTW what ever happend to the russo-ottoman war of 1887? If the ottomans lose like the OTL there not in too good of a situation. This is too late for the ottomans to become a hegemon they dont have the reasources or man power you can have them perfomr better then they did by fixing some mistakes but thats about it. Plus talat pasha never hated the armenians he is the one that allowed payment to be given to every armenian man women and child relocted plus he is also the one that allowed christians aid groups to come to anatolia and give aid to them. He is also the one that demanded the people that kept on attacking armenian convoys to syria be captured and brought to trial to pay for there crimes. The socalled hatred of talat pasha for armenians is a downright lie made up by the genocide propaganda machine because it needed a face.

Another big misconception is where i have to agree with TyranicusMaximus. The ottomans did have rules to dictate progress the ottoman state was very reformest. The hieracrhy and imperial family new what to do. It wasnt some inherint inability caused by culture or understand to make reforms. Reforms cost money and take time two things the ottomans didnt have. There is also the problam of its minorities acting like fifth columns. There is also the problam of europe having a double standerd on them and ganging up on them etc.There is endless amount of problams that the ottomans have no control over. The TL isnt possible the pod is just too late.
 
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The pod is too late after 1900's the ottomans cant become a hegemon especialy after losing the balkans. BTW what ever happend to the russo-ottoman war of 1887? If the ottomans lose like the OTL there not in too good of a situation. This is too late for the ottomans to become a hegemon they dont have the reasources or man power you can have them perfomr better then they did by fixing some mistakes but thats about it. Plus talat pasha never hated the armenians he is the one that allowed payment to be given to every armenian man women and child relocted plus he is also the one that allowed christians aid groups to come to anatolia and give aid to them. He is also the one that demanded the people that kept on attacking armenian convoys to syria be captured and brought to trial to pay for there crimes. The socalled hatred of talat pasha for armenians is a downright lie made up by the genocide propaganda machine because it needed a face.

Another big misconception is where i have to agree with TyranicusMaximus. The ottomans did have rules to dictate progress the ottoman state


was very reformest. The hieracrhy and imperial family new what to do. It was some inherint inability caused by culture or understand to make reforms. Reforms cost money and take time two things the ottomans didnt have. There is also the problam of its minorities acting like fifth columns. There is also the problam of europe having a double standerd on them and ganging up on them etc.There is endless amount of problams that the ottomans have no control over. The TL isn possible the pod is just too late.
About Talat Pasha. Umm I may have misread his Bio
um don when I meant Hegemon I mean OE does not die, I know It can't be a hegemon. What happened in this tl is that the Russo Ottoman war ended in a draw, also The Ottomans did not lose the balkans fully, remember my pd is in 1900 at this time e still controlled Macedonia, Rumelia, and Bosnia in this tl due to a stronger show of Ottoman force Austria
abstains from siezing Bosnia. Also in this tl the Ottomans scrapped their fleet, for money, also Mehmet encouraged buisnesses to rise and he alsotook a lot of loans. It is plausable because remember in otl it wasn't till 1903-1906 that Macedonia was taken. In this tl what happened is that Mehmet created sattelite states or Ottoman puppets with friendly ottoman goverments. However these proctorate had relative autonomy, also thanks to the Otoman secret police IMRO is crushed by 1909.

I agree with you that OE was reforming. In this tl they just get an emperor who is also a brilliant politician, Strategist, Military commander, statesmen, and an enlightened monarch. Most Ottoman sultans were horrible at running affairs at this time even if they were modernizing so I just gave a Alexander or Genghis Khan like figure for the Ottomans. In this tl due to Ottoman interference Balkan wars are slightly pushed away because of the tensions beetween Serbia and Bulgaria.

Also thanks to new industry and buisness money is returning to Ottoman coffers.

So with new found money Mehmet just continues reforms at a much larger pace.

I respect sultan Abdul greatly for his polocies but face It he led the OE to ruin so I had him die in 1900. You see, it is all part of my plan.


So yes due to these reasons this POD is plausable

also plz fully read my updates Don:)
 
While this new Sultan may be able to buy the Empire a great deal of time I don't think its feasible to have the OE hold onto the Balkans with a POD in 1900. He may be able to save the empire from total collapse in a WWI analouge simply by having intelligent commanders not waste men attacking the Russians, but ultimately the Balkans will want full independence and the Arab nationalist movements will recouver.

Which is not to say that the Ottomans won't retain a great deal of influence in their former territories- if they're willing to grant them independence.
 
While this new Sultan may be able to buy the Empire a great deal of time I don't think its feasible to have the OE hold onto the Balkans with a POD in 1900. He may be able to save the empire from total collapse in a WWI analouge simply by having intelligent commanders not waste men attacking the Russians, but ultimately the Balkans will want full independence and the Arab nationalist movements will recouver.

Which is not to say that the Ottomans won't retain a great deal of influence in their former territories- if they're willing to grant them independence.

Actually Ephirim the balkans are independant... It's just that they are sattelite states of the OE. mehmet knows he cannot directly control the Balkans so he put friendly goverments on their thrones. It is similiar to how the USSR created the string of sattelite states. So although these states are independant they are defacto Ottoman puppets and proctorates
 
Actually Ephirim the balkans are independant... It's just that they are sattelite states of the OE. mehmet knows he cannot directly control the Balkans so he put friendly goverments on their thrones. It is similiar to how the USSR created the string of sattelite states. So although these states are independant they are defacto Ottoman puppets and proctorates

Even the USSR had to deal with uprisings and dissent among their client states. The Ottoman Empire might not be strong enough to prop up unfriendly governments if the people themselves don't like it.
 
Even the USSR had to deal with uprisings and dissent among their client states. The Ottoman Empire might not be strong enough to prop up unfriendly governments if the people themselves don't like it.


True but in this tl the sultan is promoting equality, Freedom to practice your relegion in peace have a say in your goverment. He is givig equal rights to all his subjects, and he is building new Churches, Mosques, and schools and giving the minorities a chance at higher education. So he is in fact giving the people of each state what they want...
 
I know in another thread I took a negative view of the idea that the Ottomans could be a "Superpower", but I thought I'd get this off my chest.

Why do Ottoman timelines often start with "Sultan/Prince X is committed to progress, instead of being confined to the harem", as if the Ottomans already didn't have rulers dedicated to progress.

They didn't lack an impetus for progress, far from it certainly, and did a pretty good job considering their resources.

I'll follow this one with a bit of interest, but that's a bugbear of mine.

Well, this is a 20th c TL, so nobody is confined to the harem. But Abdul Hamid II didn't really encourage the professional ambitions of men of the dynasty, unless they were toward artistic or academic pursuits.

So this is about a prince having his desire to make positive change ignited.
 
One comment is that I think the Ottomans would really need to concentrate on retaining what they have and deepening control over areas that are only nominally controlled, like much of Arabia. Trying to retake Greece and Bulgaria would lead to a general war in which they'd be isolated.

Also, Abdul Hamid is a single name, not two different ones - in modern Turkish it's Abdülhamit. It's an Arabic name, Abd al Hamid: Abd = servant of, al = the, Hamid = Guide. So it's Servant of the Guide, the Guide being one of the 99 names of Allah. Abdul would just mean "servant of the". Very minor point.

Anyway, it's an interesting scenario, so carry on!
 
One comment is that I think the Ottomans would really need to concentrate on retaining what they have and deepening control over areas that are only nominally controlled, like much of Arabia. Trying to retake Greece and Bulgaria would lead to a general war in which they'd be isolated.

Also, Abdul Hamid is a single name, not two different ones - in modern Turkish it's Abdülhamit. It's an Arabic name, Abd al Hamid: Abd = servant of, al = the, Hamid = Guide. So it's Servant of the Guide, the Guide being one of the 99 names of Allah. Abdul would just mean "servant of the". Very minor point.

Anyway, it's an interesting scenario, so carry on!
I see well srry about mistake. Btw about the Ottomans, in this tl they are not isolated because Mehmet is playing a very dangerous game. You see he is acting very friendly with the great powers in which he is siding with both power blocs. Anyway here is the update:D Also about the war well the war was fought and it led to Ottoman victory due to rapid modernization of Ottoman forces


Chapter IV: Internal reforms and change
It is the year 1915 World war rages in Europe as the central powers of AH and Germany face off against Russia, Britain and France. However trouble starts from the beginning for the entente. The AH had successfully been modernizing their army so the Hungarians were quickly crushed. At the fierce battle of Budapest the Russian army under general Brusilov Alexi was completely routed and the venerable general was killed in the fighting. With the loss of Brusilov the Austrians launched multiple offensives into Russia. Meanwhile the French were losing battle after battle to the Germans who launched a massive offensive, which overwhelmed the French. However the British Empire was able to retake much of African from the Germans and the BEI under Jan Smut defeated Paul Von Lettow Vorbek who later on committed suicide. However by 1916 the Germans had launched a massive attack push into France. They Bypassed paris and instead of taking Paris siezed the rest of the cities and so without wasting men, most of Northern France was in German control. they had also heavily fortified the eastern front and bloody battles were fought in the east as millions of Russians died storming the German fortifications and likewise hundreds of thousands of German lives were lost in defense. By 1917 western parts of France had had fallen to the German army, however the French refused to surrender even though half their country was occupied, and so the Germans launched the invasion of France for 2 years the Germans suffered hell as they fought through SOuthern France. Finally the exhausted Germans reached conquered the whole country save Paris. But were too weak to do anything else. With the British launching invasions from multiple fronts into France which the Germans could not repel but brought the British to a standstil at Aquitane. Germany sued for peace. In the treaty of 1920 Germany would receive all lands in the Rhine and Belgium. The Germans would give up their colonies to Britain and scrap 40 percent of their navy. Meanwhile the Russians sued for peace. By this time the Tsar was overthrown and civil war raged in Russia between the whites and communists. Kerensky’s provisional government fell and so Russia was lost in a civil war. AH could not keep any of its gains because it had been heavily weakened and exhausted. Soon revolts broke out across Germany and Austria, while in France the government was overthrown as chaos reigned in the country. Europe lay in ruins with over 15 million people dead. Economies were in ruins and all was hell.

Meanwhile in the OE, Mehmet focused on promoting learning and knowledge, passed many reforms in the beurocracy fought inflation, paid back the OE debts and the country was stable. By 1921 the Ottomans had a flourishing economy, throughout the war the Ottomans made large profits trading with both the Central and Entente powers making a lot of Money. Thus by 1922 the Ottomans were in a very successful position with control of the Balkans, a modernized army, railroad tracks, and monuments, as well as many engineers and doctors, Mehmet now turned his eyes to Russia. As he knew a civil war was going on so Mehmet through support for the whites. He hated communists and so as the only real power able to do anything useful he signed a secret treaty with the Whites and so the OE invaded Russia under the pretense of “ Helping their allies the whites against communists.” In reality this was all a cover created by Mehmet whose real goal was to retake Crimea and all Ottoman lands seized by Russia in the caucasius. no other euro power intervened because all were too exhausted and in very bad positions and they watched helplessly as Ottoman troops invaded Russia. Under the command of Enver Pasha the Ottomans launched the recon quest of Crime and the caucasiu,, as it would forever be known
 
An update to this tl:D:D

Ottoman conquest of Crimea and Caucasus 1922-1926

In the year 1922 under the venerable Enver Pasha an Ottoman force launched an assault into the Russian Caucasus. By late 1923 Enver won brilliant victories as the weak and inept Russian generals were crushed as the Ottomans advanced smashing their way through Akalkhalaki and Iori. Soon the Offensive reached Gori by July. The Russians lost over 600k men. Enver had an army of some million-ottoman troops and thus was able to steamroll through the Caucasus. It also helped that the people were fellow Turks who eagerly supported their brethren in Anatolia. Soon by 1924 the Russian Caucasus over 90 percent had fallen and only a few cities to the north remained. Alexandrapol-Sabran all territory was under ottoman control. Tiblisi and a few other towns were all that remained under Russian control. From August-December the siege of Tiblisi dragged out as the Russian defenders fought like lions but in the end Tiblisi fell by September 31. With the fall of Tiblisi Russian control of the Caucasus had all but ended.




Meanwhile in the west under Mehmet the ottoman main army of 3million soon crossed into Russian territory as they seize zaporavia, Bessarabia, Moldavia, and most of Russian Crimea fell by 1926. By this time the communists had finally won the war but at a harsh cost. The leader Lenin knew this could not last so he sued for peace. In the humiliating treaty of Crimea, Russia ceded all of the Caucasus and All of Crimea and Moldavia to the Ottoman Empire. The deal made Russia lose its Baltic warm water ports. The treaty wins Mehmet prestige and glory. However the other major powers saw the stunning rise of the Ottomans as a threat to White supremacy which most of the powers followed. Britain especially grew very wary of this behemoth known as the Ottomans. However from 1926-1933 was a period of prosperity as businesses grew people spent money and invested heavily in stocks. However in 1930 this would all change, the now 40 year old Mehemet would face his toughest challenge, it would be a dark period of Ottoman history known as the Depression. It would end with the ottoman economy in ruins and the once mighty power in a very unstable position. It would be known worldwide as the Great Depression.






In this tl the reason the ottomans were so successful in war against Russia is because


They modernized


Had a strong officer core


Russia lay in ruins after the World war.


Russia was bankrupt


Russia in a civil war


Little to no troops available in Caucasus


Famine raging across Russia


A inept and weak officer core


Ill equipped army


Ill prepared supply train


Greatly weakened Morale of Russian armies


Starvation


Excellent ottoman supply train


High ottoman morale


Disciplined Ottoman troops


Manpower and fresh troops

Local populace unsupportive of Russians


Due to these list of reasons and more the Ottomans were able to conquer so much Russian territory. Hope that clears a lot of confusion up.
 
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