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Turkey; Administrative Divisions of Turkey; Government of Turkey; Turkish territorial losses; Ethnic Distribution of Turkey; Turkish Sultans since 1861
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Quite interesting for Wikipedia to not mention Kurds in the first paragraph despite mentioning Greeks and Albanians.

Unsure if Gaziantep would be that rather than simply Antep but I guess it is possible with the Franco-Turkish War ITTL.

I think Edirne would be a likelier name than Gallipoli for the Thracian province.

I wonder what important figures in OTL late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic did ITTL.
Mustafa Kemal is mentioned in the Infobox of the Franco-Turkish War, but I wonder what else him and other figures of the time in Turkey did.
I could imagine some of them being part of the 1941 constitutionalist coup (kinda reminds me of the OTL 1960 coup in Turkey, which resulted in the Turkish constitution with most freedoms).
 
Excellent stuff as usual.

Who's taken the position of Caliph since the role was separated from Sultan?

Clearly (via Neslişah Sultan) the order succession to Sultan was changed to (absolute?) primogeniture while the Caliphal succession remained with Agnatic Seniority.
 
Quite interesting for Wikipedia to not mention Kurds in the first paragraph despite mentioning Greeks and Albanians.

Unsure if Gaziantep would be that rather than simply Antep but I guess it is possible with the Franco-Turkish War ITTL.

I think Edirne would be a likelier name than Gallipoli for the Thracian province.

I wonder what important figures in OTL late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic did ITTL.
Mustafa Kemal is mentioned in the Infobox of the Franco-Turkish War, but I wonder what else him and other figures of the time in Turkey did.
I could imagine some of them being part of the 1941 constitutionalist coup (kinda reminds me of the OTL 1960 coup in Turkey, which resulted in the Turkish constitution with most freedoms).

Interestingly, the Kurds are a smaller minority than Greeks and Armenians. In-universe editors probably only saw it fit to discuss the top two in the introduction.

I went back and forth with it, but I felt it was a nice historical rhyming to go with it regardless.

Oh that's interesting, alright. I could probably manage to change that.

This is something I'd LOVE to explore. I had a lot of fun with this update (and even up to today I was still producing content for it and tweaking it). I will be returning to it at some point to explain more once we move into a more historically-focused part of the timeline. This is not the last we've seen of Turkey!

Excellent stuff as usual.

Who's taken the position of Caliph since the role was separated from Sultan?
Clearly (via Neslişah Sultan) the order succession to Sultan was changed to (absolute?) primogeniture while the Caliphal succession remained with Agnatic Seniority.

This is correct. The Caliph is Harun, who in reality is the preesnt head of the House of Osman.
 
BTW @CosmicAsh love the Vilayet flags (reminds me of the Japanese Prefectures) and the Sultan-Caliph diarchy. (I have a soft spot for diarchic systems of government. Be it a religious hereditary position with soft-power co-existing with the actual head of state (for a short while Turkey in OTL was both a Republic and had a Caliph, your Turkey also fits), a commonwealth realm style state where in place of the governor-general there is another monarch or a commonwealth realm style state with governor-general and prime minister combined into a president-like figure who nonetheless technically exists under a monarch.)
 
What are the ideologies of the parties in parliament?
There was something about this in the Discord:
- Republican (Far-Left)
- Socialist Justice (Left)
- New Economic (Centre-Left)
- Green (Centre-Left)
- Conversation (Centre)
- Alternative (Centre)
- Equality (Centre)
- Free Conservative (Centre-Right)
- National (Right)
- Regions (Right)
- Liberal Future (Far-Right)
- Salvation (Far-Right, Islamic)
 
BTW @CosmicAsh love the Vilayet flags (reminds me of the Japanese Prefectures) and the Sultan-Caliph diarchy. (I have a soft spot for diarchic systems of government. Be it a religious hereditary position with soft-power co-existing with the actual head of state (for a short while Turkey in OTL was both a Republic and had a Caliph, your Turkey also fits), a commonwealth realm style state where in place of the governor-general there is another monarch or a commonwealth realm style state with governor-general and prime minister combined into a president-like figure who nonetheless technically exists under a monarch.)

Thank you! The lore behind them was they were designed for the 700th anniversary of the founding of the state in 1999, so they were all designed in one go and have stuck like that ever since. The diarchy I am most pleased with. The main imputes behind it was a desire to reform Turkey's rotating chair between sons of a long ago Sultan, and while Islamic law dictates that only a male can be head of the family, the two offices were split. Thus, the male-only line continued in the Caliph, while the embodiment of the state continued along a more European path (not an unintentional result, Turkey has consistently attempted to angle itself towards Europe in the past ~100 years). It just so happened to coincide with a Sultan who had three daughters. Whoops!

What are the ideologies of the parties in parliament?

While the poster below you did give you the abridged overview from the Discord, that was merely a draft and should not have been pushed to the wider audience.

Republican:
Solidly against the monarchy. Has socialist factions within its ranks (although, socialism is not inherently republican). It is considered on the left of the spectrum because of its opposition to the monarchy, but that masks some of it's socially conservative elements. While they don't outright say "women should not be political leaders," it's heavily implied.

Socialist Justice:
Now we have a party that's left-wing on both social issues and economics. They advocate for public ownership of major utilities and businesses, including nationalisation of all currently operating businesses in the country. The party's platform calls for central planning in the Hamiltonian style (very peculiar for a European country), and generally supports full and complete legal equality in all cases. One of their biggest planks is that no money should allow anyone to buy a better lawyer. They find themselves popular with the lower classes.

New Economic:
New Economic is a party that emerged during the most recent recession, which essentially posited that state-assisted capitalism was a viable method to bring the country out of its economic slump. It has proven to be remarkably successful, though there have been allegations that this tactic has been used to assist the party's allies in the business sector. Generally doesn't have a social platform.

Green:
As the name suggests, it's a Green party. It's considered on the centre-left primarily because the two main factions are divided over how to achieve net zero emissions in the country. One side believes that supporting legislation to let the market take control of it is the path of least resistance (the majority faction), the minority faction believes in strict mandates and a drive towards net negative carbon emissions. They also support a trans-European binding agreement to enforce such measures. They aren't that popular.

Conversation:
This is about as a bland, centrist party as they come. Their campaigns are famously devoid of any social issues, and when pressed it's more or less "the way things now are currently fine." Economically they are more or less what we would call neoliberals, with a slightly more statist approach (see: the United Kingdom; British Empire). In recent years it's become a personalist party based around it's enigmatic leader, Baskurt Kemal which in turn...

Alternative:
Means those who are against Kemal left the party and formed Alternative. The primary objective of the party was to engage in democratic party leadership elections, as well as democratic policy meetings. This way leaders and ideas could flow upwards, not be dictated from the top. They are a bit more radical than their Conversationalist cousins, because their social platforms is more or less an appeal to keep civil rights, and to fight for them where they are threatened.

Equality:
This is a one-issue party that is extremely popular with Turkey's minority groups. Other than the Greeks, who are essentially considered to be the "in group," and have been for decades if not centuries at this point. The party seeks to right historic wrongs which have created wealth inequality and inequity of outcomes for minority groups due to the long centuries of discrimination they faced at the hands of the Turkish majority. It's placed on the centre because neither the left nor the right really see this as an issue, and their only support comes from the centrist parties.

Free Conservative:
Probably the closest thing to a normal European, centre-right party that you'd find in the EU. Capitalist, to a degree. Socially liberal(ish), to a degree. Generally the party of "hey, not our problem!" when it comes to more controversial issues. Generally supports a lower-tax regime and seeks balanced budgets when they are feasible. Got along real well with New Economic for a time.

National:
Fairly standard right-wing nationalist party. Pro-Turkish (and Greek, though don't ask them directly, they get a bit embarrassed about it). One of the few parties to actually agree that religion should have a role in public life. All members are required to be practicing faithfuls (how this is governed, no one knows. Trust system.) Which makes their election parties incredibly boring. Pretty socially conservative.

Regions:
Social conservatives. Anti-Constantinople. Views the big city as a horrible place filled with horrible ideas and people who think differently and drink tea weird. Huge focus on the family (though not so much religion). The party is federalist, and would really like to break up the powers of the imperial government to move towards a system not unlike that seen in Australia or Germany.

Liberal Future:
Shockingly, once a centre-left party. The party has drifted hard to the right over the years from several steps and decisions made by the leadership. Very very few (if any) of the original leaders remain. Believes in Turkish supremacy, and supports laws limiting minority groups in Turkish-majority areas. Supports mandatory education in Turkish, and making it illegal to teach non-Turkish culture. Even to Greeks! (This is basically unheard of on the right or left.) Would it come as a surprise they also want to ban all immigrants and refugees?

Salvation:
Can't say much about this one. It's an Islamist party that seeks to enforce Islamic laws on the entire country. Blames the country's current economic misfortune and fallen position in the world on the fact they abandoned Islam. Supports abolishing the constitution and returning to imperial rule, as well as re-merging the Caliph and the Sultan. Unclear who they support as Sultan, but it's certainly not Mehmed VII.
 
While the poster below you did give you the abridged overview from the Discord, that was merely a draft and should not have been pushed to the wider audience.
Oh I’m sorry about that, I wasn’t aware that was a work in progress. Are there rules about sharing stuff from the Discord? I wouldn’t want to do something like that again
 
This is probably curiousity in AH standards gone wilde, but how does the paper size map of TTL look like? Instead of trying to badger Ash about it, what do we think, what's our best guess?
 
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Cool stuff - since the North Island is majority Maori and the South Island is majority European, is there any sort of secessionist sentiment in the South Island?
 
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