WI: A fairer Treaty of Sèvres and a surviving Ottoman Monarchy?

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But the Western Entente had tacitly accepted Russian ambitions before the Tsarist government collapsed, IIRC.

The collapse just let them avoid paying the price they'd expected to pay.
Yes, and since they didn't had to pay it anymore there was no reason to not have an Anatolian state as a counterweight to the red behemoth, except the Turks, f*ck those guys.

The ideal move for the Ottoman Empire during WW1 is not to play. That being said the Entente fully were thinking the sultan would rule as some kind of proxy of a non- Empire from internationalized Constantinople. The turkish nationalist insurgency came as a surprise.
 
Yes, and since they didn't had to pay it anymore there was no reason to not have an Anatolian state as a counterweight to the red behemoth, except the Turks, f*ck those guys.

Sure, but my point was that they had no particular devotion to an inviolable Turkish Anatolia even BEFORE the Armenian genocide.
 
So basically the Ottomans either have to stay out of the war or be seen as a stabilizing power post war. At this point the only thing I can think of would be the Soviets screwing Kemal over and invading after their division of Armenia.
 
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