[H. Paul Pressler IV]

Without the break-up of the Ottoman Empire there would likely be no Israel and the Empire would now control all the oil on the Arab Peninsula as well as in Iraq.

[billbears]

Without the break-up of the Ottoman Empire there would likely be no Israel and the Empire would now control all the oil on the Arab Peninsula as well as in Iraq.

Of course we wouldn't have the continuous unrest that we have there now, and Iraq (a contrived nation) wouldn't exist either. I'm not sure how you can say Israel wouldn't have existed. The Ottoman Empire, as with all empires, would have eventually fallen from within.

[Verginius Rufus]

By 1914, most of the Christian nations of southeastern Europe had managed to free themselves from Ottoman rule (Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Rumanians) and also the majority-Muslim Albanians. Why should the non-Turkish peoples elsewhere been forced to remain inside the empire?