Turkey: Why were the Ottomans given SO MUCH at the end of WWI?

>>2829804
Fear of Russia and cucking for the little guy (Turkey)

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>>2829804
Except for a small bit of the western Anatolian coast (modern day İzmir Province), all that area was majority Turkish in 1920 and had been for hundreds of years prior. As well as a central part of the Turkish state for hundreds of years. Including Istanbul and East Thrace. Not that the Allies cared much, they supported the Greeks solving that problem via genocide/ethnic cleansing. The Greeks just lost the war despite lots of help and a massive advantage in every area of materiel because the Turks are just smarter fighters than them.

After that point trying to propose to the British or French "hey guys why don't you March hundreds of thousands of troops into bumfuck nowhere and ethnically cleanse it while suffering tens of thousands [minimum] more deaths yourself just to hand it to the Greeks at the end" would just get you laughed at.

>>2829804
They tried but got BTFO. Just like how today American protesters get BTFO in their own country and Turks get away with it. Turks are the strongest race in the world

>>2829804
>In retrospect... the Ottomans got away with a lot re: Sykes-Picot...

The empire lost a whole quarter of its population including nearly a third of all recruited soldiers, and was literally dissolved, with the top echelons of its leadership arrested or exiled by the new leadership after or assassinated by Armenians. No other country in WW1 was as thoroughly punished and crushed.

>>2829840
Kek

What is: the Turkish war of Independence

>>2829804
Even if the Allies decided to take Anatolia, they wouldn't have given their spoils to the Greeks anyway. Why give land to weak Greeks who couldn't even take it back themselves?

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They tried

>>2829913
>Italy
Still mad

>>2829804
>favour the Germans
>shoot on troops moving between
>write letters proclaiming your love for Germany and your wish to join them in war
>slow everything down by a year
>hey guys why didn't I get my plan which would upset the balance of power in a treaty which would be voided not that long after due to revolution

They were dismantled way TOO much. Had they remained in control of all Syria/Mesopotamia/Arabia, we could just solve the ISIS problem by telling them to deal with it or kick their asses and make them deal with it. Now it's a fractured shithole and nobody can keep it in order.

>>2829804
They tried with the treaty of sevres but wars between the Turks and the Greeks (and other groups trying to occupy Anatolia) ended with Turkish national victory and the treaty of Lausanne
And the ottomans weren't any more genocidal than any other empire