What if the British pushed harder to do the operation there.
I had earlier read that France objected because they could not put boots on the ground and they thought it was the British horning in on their expected Syrian area of interest.
However, I now think that rationale is BS because French troops were available to participate in the Gallipolli invasion and in this TL they just participate in the invasion by British Empire forces at Alexandretta.
Are Entente chances of surviving Ottoman defense and counterattack better here than at Gallipolli? Do the Allies get into a position to exploit a successful capture, or does it become a "Salonika" for most of the war?
If they can break out from the coast, will this happen by mid 1915? Late 1915? or not until 1916?
Where and when will the Western Allied forces be likely to junction with either the British Indian force in Mesopotamia or the Russian force in the Caucasus?