WI - Japan and Ottomans launch a joint attack of Russia during Russo-Japanese War?

[Abdul Hadi Pasha]

Because the Russians have more men, better communications, more industries and a true war navy by 1905. And as soon the Caucasian peoples could join the Ottoman side (if they even do), then the Russian agents in the Balkans would led at least a massive uprising in Bulgaria and joined attacks by Montenegro, Serbia and Greece which would stab the Ottomans in the back. The only chance of the Ottomans to achieve a great victory (no a stalemate or something like that) is to throw at least one or two European powers in the Ottoman side, but that is unlikely since the Ottomans are the ones who attacked first and oportunistically the Russians (according to the first post). Things like that are the ones which make a bad reputation...

That's always been true, yet the Ottomans have always done better against them than expected. The Ottomans are not going to get crushed. In a war against Japan and Russia, Russia will become exhausted before anyone else. In WWI, the Ottomans got worn down, but not exhausted - and outlasted Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and under the Nationalists, the rest of the powers too. That's despite being at war for 12 years (1911-1923) without paying the troops AT ALL during this time, and barely feeding them. I think we can all agree what would have happened in any other army that had to endure this.