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A random question but if the Ottoman Empire were to win and institute some of the iniatiatives Abdul Hadi Pasha mentioned, plus holding onto Egypt and the Suez Canal what would relations with the United Kingdom be like? From what I remember attitudes at the time were kind of schizophrenic depending on who was in power swinging between the Plamerston-Disraeli school of thought supporting the Ottomans as a brake against Russian expansion in the Balkans or French control of the Suez Canal and the Gladstone school which was fairly anti-Ottoman.
With the Ottomans beating the Russians and continuing to control an artery of Empire in the Canal could we see British making a major move to improve relations with the Ottomans and offers of help?
A random question but if the Ottoman Empire were to win and institute some of the iniatiatives Abdul Hadi Pasha mentioned, plus holding onto Egypt and the Suez Canal what would relations with the United Kingdom be like? From what I remember attitudes at the time were kind of schizophrenic depending on who was in power swinging between the Plamerston-Disraeli school of thought supporting the Ottomans as a brake against Russian expansion in the Balkans or French control of the Suez Canal and the Gladstone school which was fairly anti-Ottoman.
With the Ottomans beating the Russians and continuing to control an artery of Empire in the Canal could we see British making a major move to improve relations with the Ottomans and offers of help?