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I am toying around with the idea of a Central Powers victory in WW I where Italy joins the Central Powers and the Ottomans barely manage to stay neutral (or maybe join when it is already clear that the CP are going to win) and also have Ataturk in power or close to that. Also I am thinking...

According to the 1912 Treaty of Ouchy which ended the Italo-Turkish War, the Italians were obligated the return the Dodecanese Islands to the Ottoman Empire once the latter fulfilled its peace obligation. Before the islands could have been returned however, the Ottoman Empire got involved in...

Present is the following scenario: A-H doesn't launch the 2nd Battle of Piave, instead it chooses to strenghten its defences behind the river and also send a few divisions to the Balkans to aid the Bulgarians. As a result, neither the Italian, nor the Balkan Front collapses, however the...

I love history, and when I read historical sources about the history of Genghis Khan, I was surprised to find that most of these historical clans today form the backbone of my nation. Today, historical tribes such as "Naiman, Kerey, Dulat, Zhalair, Katagan, Alban, Kongurat" are among the most...

During Suleiman's Persian campaign, his army halted in Ereğli for a while. While Süleyman's army was in Ereğli, Rüstem Pasha made an offer to Mustafa to join his father's army. At the same time he warned Suleiman and persuaded him that Mustafa was coming to kill him. Mustafa accepted the...

From the 1430s to the early 1440s, Skanderberg was under the employ of the Ottomans and is said to have served loyally. Let's say that he remains loyal and the entire rebellion does not happen. What would be the consequences of the Ottomans gaining a competent leader like Skanderberg for...

Could the Turks and Greeks unite and reform the ERE after the 4th crusade? By that I mean a state in which the majority of people are either Turkish, Greek or a mix of both (all these groups living mostly peacefully with each other) conquers Constantinople and revives the Roman Empire. The...

I know this might not be the most plausible scenario, but what if the Ottomans, when switching from Persian as the official language, decided to go for Arabic instead of Turkish. Would we see an Arabic dialect that borrows heavily from Turkish grow in city centres around Anatolia? Would we see...

As the title says, how far does the Ottoman Empire can realistically expand at it's highest, assuming everything goes well for them and under competent leadership? So, do you think the Ottoman Empire can expanded themselves bigger than OTL or that's as far as they go in their holdings? The...

Apparently, Shah Suleiman Mirza of the Persian Safavid Empire was aware of the massive setbacks being put upon the Ottoman Empire in Europe in the aftermath of the Battle of Vienna (1683). However, he declined to participate in the war by the side of the Holy Alliance, under the impression that...

With a PoD anywhere between 1900 and 1918, how can enough of the right strings be pulled so that the Ottoman Empire, not Russia (or maybe also them), becomes the stage of a socialist revolution in the early 20th century? One condition must be that this new "Ottoman USSR" holds on to Kurdistan...

As the title says, Ottoman Turkish is the lingua franca of the Middle-East. How can the Ottoman Empire implemented it within their territories, aside from language of the elites and administration? The case is like the similar legacies of the British Empire of English in most of their former...

As the title says, what happens if the Ottoman Empire have somehow managed to conquer and rule the Indian subcontinent like the OTL British Raj? How would this impact on the world as of result?

Like the title says, let's say the Ottomans managed to acquire Indonesia, one way or another, either wrested control from the Dutch or the Turks got wank. How would the lands of Indonesia under the Ottoman rule would looked like? Will it be known as Turkish East Indies or some other name?

In many Iranian languages, the suffix -i or -e is used, roughly equivalent to the English word "of". This is called ezafe. Ezafe was intentionally adopted into Ottoman Turkish and Urdu as the Turco-Persian tradition spread. It convergently resembles the Arabic genitive. By coincidence, ezafe...

During the period of Seljuk ascendancy in Anatolia, and probably after the Fourth Crusade broke up Byzantium, is it possible that a sizable number of Greeks could have converted to Islam and created an Islamic, Greek state? Could an Islamic, Greek state rise similarly to the Ottomans?

Suppose that the Ottomans manage to conquer Persia in the 16th or 17th century all the way to Hormuz, giving Khorasan to the Uzbeks and attaining supremacy over the Persian Gulf, to supplement their control over the Red Sea. Most, if not all, of the Arabian Coast also ends up falling into...

Today, Turkic languages are spoken by 170 million people natively among a very fragmented area stretching from Turkey to eastern Siberia, with the largest language being Turkish itself. Could there have been a very large Turkic empire, not the Ottoman Empire or Seljuk Empire, surviving to the...

So I've always been wondering what the state of Turkey would be after an Axis victory. Mussolini who wants to restore the Roman empire would need Constantinople to be legitimate. He has Rome, so if he gets Constantinople, and his Mediterranean empire would be closer to reality. But this could...

In pre-Islamic times, the ethnicity of the peoples in Central Asia was mostly East Iranian. Like the Bactrians, Sogdians and Scythians, with Zoroastrianism as the main religion. But after Islam, many Turkic Peoples moved to the region, like the Kazakhs and Uzbeks, bringing Islam to the region...