Reasonable Otto-Wank?

Keep Libya and all of Arabia, the southern Balkans, retake Greece, Egypt, and the Sudan, and take the Caucasus and maybe the Crimea from Russia if *WWI still happens.
Egypt-Sudan no. British have that area... Ottomans cant do jack to the british empire at time. Balkans.... eh what happened to the turks during Balkan wars yeah not likely. really with a post 1900 pod the best case is keep Arabia, perhaps Libya if they are lucky, rumelia and northern Macedonia, more of thrace, Anatolia and middle eastern territories.
 
Egypt-Sudan no. British have that area... Ottomans cant do jack to the british empire at time. Balkans.... eh what happened to the turks during Balkan wars yeah not likely. really with a post 1900 pod the best case is keep Arabia, perhaps Libya if they are lucky, rumelia and northern Macedonia, more of thrace, Anatolia and middle eastern territories.

I was basing it more on their territorial changes in rast's A Shift in Priorities. And even there Egypt-Sudan remains de facto independent of the Ottomans, although they also do manage to kick the British out. (On the other hand, they do gain Cyprus and some big satellite states in Central Asia, stretching all the way up to and including Uyghurstan, so that might compensate.)
 
With a POD in 1900 what is the best case scenario for the Ottoman Empire?

Ottoman Empire doesn't enter WWI, keeps most of its lands while it reforms its army. Then the Ottoman Empire takes over the rest of the Arabian Peninsula, and then enters the Crimea and the Caucasus while the Russians collapse into civil war.
 
Ha. I was expecting an Otto von Hapsburg - wank. And was going to make an unhelpful comment about otl alreadyy being an Otto (cycle ic engine) wank. Didnt occur to me it was shorthand ffor Ottoman, at all!
 
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