[ingeborg]

But wasn't TEL's mission--maybe unknown to him personally--to set things up so that BP could exploit the oil fields without having to deal with Ataturk?

[a_Turk]

All I know is they found oil in Arabia in 1906, 8 years later Turkey was in a losing war, and 13 years later had lost all the sand land. Only then did Ataturk come into the picture, and it never was his intention to go back to the gulf.

Too smooth to be coincidental, but keeps lingering in my mind as a suspicion that we were suckered into joining the Germans. We had some real doozies, let me tell you. Thank God for Ataturk, or else we'd be a runt paying Greek taxes right now.