Ottomans escape WWI with more territory

The captures of Damascus and Aleppo happened pretty late in the War OTL, and Mosul and Kirkuk were only occupied after Armistice of Mudros.

What if the Ottomans had managed to hold off the British and retain Damascus, Aleppo, Mosul, and Kirkuk?

The French still get Greater Lebanon here. I think it'd be too important a place to the French for the British not to push for that.



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I left all of Syria sans Lebanon as part of Turkey here and didn't really adjust other boundaries. I think it's likely that French Lebanon would include Galilee and the Golan though, if only to compensate for other territories that the French aren't getting here.

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I assume that a great many Assyrians and Armenians who today live in Syria and Iraq would end up in French Lebanon-Galilee here. Perhaps Arab Christians as well.
 
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This would require an earlier armistice but is IMO far from impossible- and in fact is something I'm considering- have an Italian breakthrough at either the Sixth or Tenth or eleventh Izonzos and end the war with an Austrian collapse. At that point the Turks have a much better bargaining position assuming Russia is either forging herself on the Germans' corpses or else collapsing into revolution (or more likely both since Russia would push for her gains). Britian might just accept a puppetized Turkish state.
 
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