Turkey becomes colonized by European powers

I'll do you one better! The Byzantines crush the Seljuks at Manzikert and the whole of Anatolia remains a bastion of Greek-speaking Europeans! ...for a given definition of "European", at any rate.

At an rate, were the implosion of the Ottoman Empire to somehow occur and the Great Powers carved up Turkey, there would at some point in the near future thereafter be a general European war over the spoils, in all likelihood related to Russia's eternal quest for an ice-free port and the balance of power considerations which always weighed against it.
 
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