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If I remember correctly, the two Ottoman warships Britain seized in August 1914 (Sultan Osman and Reshadieh, renamed Agincourt and Erin) were, at the time they were captured, basically complete and almost ready to leave the shipyard. So, lets say some POD causes construction on both ships to start, say, 3-4 months earlier than OTL, so they get completed in the spring of 1914 and thus have plenty of time to get to Turkey before WWI starts.

-Without the bad feelings caused by the seizure of the warships, do the Ottomans still ally with Germany?

-If they do, does Germany still transfer Goeben and Breslau to the Ottomans?

-How else might this affect the course of WWI?
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