Young Turk Revolution of 1908 fails

kernals12

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Do you know where these oilfields were?
The Persia Gulf borders on many other territories & nations that Persia.
Well, here's a map of today's Saudi oil fields
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And here's the Ottoman borders in 1914

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Mesopotamian oil was pumped out pre 1914 & shipped out via Basra. Britain had a major financial interest in this operation & consumed a significant part of the product pre 1914.

Tangentially oil rights were negotiated with Kuwait pre 1914, but extraction did not start until the latter 1930s
 
The fact that there is a significant natural resource under the ground will only be an encouragement for non-Turkish majorities to want out of the Ottoman Empire - seeing all that money flow to Istanbul and very little return. At the very least, local bigwigs will want to get their share of baksheesh. If any of these bits are still under Ottoman control by the 1930s, I don't think anyone would be surprised if certain powers supported "autonomy" for these regions, and naturally these autonomous regions would now cut new deals about oil.
 
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