The Eternal State - a DH-KR Ottoman AAR

@Razgriz 2K9: This is nothing compared with when the arab revolts start

@Milites: That's the plan, the caliphate shall rise again.

@Nikolai: Hopefully it will.
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Chapter III: Omens of War​

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Despite the pretty pretences of discussing and protecting the arab heritage and culture, the true purpose of the Congress was obvious, to plan the fall of the Ottoman Empire and decide how it’s lands will be split. Ottoman divisions were sent to reinforce the border with Egypt and major military exercises were held, the message was simple, the Ottoman Empire may be crippled but is by no means defenceless.


During these turbulent times the Olympic games were held, they were highly publicized by the Ottoman media. Any kind of distraction from the chaos of the crash and the Arab threat was welcome and the Ottoman propaganda machine ably used this opportunity ease the minds of its citizens.


The results of the Arab Congress didn’t surprise anyone, as expected Egypt laid vast claims on the Ottoman lands while the more moderate Hashmite Arabia demanded only access to the Red Sea, war was inevitable it was only a matter of when.



By July 13 ,1936 the worst part of the Berlin Crash had passed, thanks to the monumental governmental efforts some sectors were experiencing small recoveries.



On the 4th September 1936 tragedy once again struck the Ottoman Empire, the wife of the crown prince died after prolonged illness despite the best efforts of the Court Doctors.
A day of mourning was declared thought the country and a magnificent funeral paid by the Imperial Treasury was organized, it was said that it had such opulence that one would think that it was the Sultan’s own funeral. There was the notable absence in the funeral of the crown prince himself. He had been very close to his wife, and after the tragic even he sulked into a deep depression, for weeks he refused to interact with anyone but his father.


In Russia the situation finally escalated into full civil war, Buhkarins’s Bolsheviks took arms against Denekin’s oppressive military regime. Clashes between Bolsheviks and loyalists occurred through all the country particularly in the industrialized Northwest were the Bolshevik managed to completely drive out the governmental forces from large swathes of territory. In the old capital of Petrograd, Buhkarin proclaimed the birth of a new Soviet Russia, the 2nd Russian Civil War had started.

Siberian Nationalists took this chance to break away from the Russian Federation, Denekin’s Regime already with its hands full attempting to keep the Bolshevik insurgencies under control - specially after large parts of the military having defected - was forced to agree with the Siberia’s demands for independence, though under very favourable terms which included Siberian support in the civil war.



Back at home, the creation of the Imperial Camel Desert Corps was announced. Though some military leaders complained that using mounted riders was a thing of the past, most of the military command agreed that they were ideal to fight in the harsh environments where the arabs lived. Modern vehicles were too prone to malfunction and fuel shortages in those arid and isolated environments.




In Armenia, the discoveries of archaeological artifices that suggested that the heritage of the Armenians was more “glorious” and “rich” than what was previously suspected caused a wave of nationalistic sentiment to spread thought the nation. The Ottoman Empire of course knew better, those findings were clearly fakes created to destabilize the region , so the Empire pointed the Armenian government in the “right direction” by “suggesting” they removed from the academic works any reference to this obvious fakes and arrest the so called “archaeologists”.


Not only Ottoman Empire and the Russians were facing internal problems, the world was quickly descending into a spiral of madness and flames of war were spreading thought the globe.

In the February of 1947, the USA disintegrated in several fighting factions after the Republican President, Charles Curtis, acceded to Reed’s demands of shorter working hours, better minimum wage and more power to the Trade Unions. Huey Long, the popular and influential leader of the America First party, declared that those demands were anti-American and urged all his followers to secede from the United States, forming the American Union State. The rich West Coast too followed Long’s example - claiming that Curtis administration had entered an unholy alliance with syndicalism - seceded forming the Pacific States of America. In the North-East, Socialist Trade Unions seeing the USA weakened came to the conclusion that it was the ideal time to break away and form a workers state in North America, the Combined Syndicates of America were born.
Other smaller states, not wanting to get involved in a fight they considered not their own, also broke away, chief amongst these were New England which was put under Canadian protection, Alaska which was formally annexed by Canada and Hawai were the natives sick of the white American rule revolted.
The 2nd Civil War had started, fought by not two but by four opposing factions and promising much more bloodshed than the first.



The Kingdom of Spain had been plagued by internal strife for years and the death of King Alfonso III finally made the situation explode. The Carlist movement which supported Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma as the rightful claimant to the throne took this chance to attempt to seize power. The CNT-FAI too saw this as a great opportunity to turn Spain into the newest member of the International and rose up against both the Carlists and the government.



The Far East was too engulfed in bloody conflicts. The Qing Empire faced the combined armies of the Shangqing Tianguo religious fanatics and of the mad Baron’s Mongols. Southern China was embroiled in a civil war between the German corporate forces of the Algostasien GmbH and the Chinese revolutionaries of the Republic of China. While Japan faced several nationalistic rebellions in it’s oversea provinces of Korea and Formosa.



In this tense climate the last thing the Ottomans were expecting was good news.




None knows exactly what made Hashemite Arabia change its mind. It was pretty much set since the Arab Conference that an official military alliance would be made between both arab nations, so this decision came as a complete surprise for both Constantinople and Cairo.
The foreign ministry boasted this was a brilliant victory for Ottoman diplomacy, though how much this change of hearts was due to Ottoman diplomatic pressure is unknown, as far as the government knew this could even be somekind of trap.*


Still the Ottoman Empire couldn’t use this time to relax a bit, for more trouble was brewing in Armenia.



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*Honestly this is the first time this happens to me, I don't know how far reaching the consequences will be, as far as I know there may not be an arab war anymore. I have a strict not-change ai decisions policy so I won't load a save to make them join Egypt

A question to my readers, is my narrative ok? Since I am not an native English speaker I am having my doubts about the quality of writing, I tend to constantly rewrite my paragraphs but even so there are several I am not happy with

@Nikolai: Indeed my life will be way easier it seems.

@Razgriz 2K9: I will undoubtedly go at war with them but now it will be on my terms.

@Timmie0307: Indeed and thanks

@son of liberty: Thanks, I really just don't want to be writing a crappy AAR without realizing

@Praetonia:That's actually one of the reasons that led me to pick the Ottos

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Chapter IV: The Armenian Crisis​

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Fallowing the archaeological artefacts sham, the Armenia government, in their overzealousness to please their Ottoman Benefactors, “voluntarily” started to ban the teaching of Armenian literature due to it’s obvious bias and inaccuracy. Better material provided by the Ottomans was distributed through the schools of the small nation and the Armenians were incentivized to turn over the old inaccurate books to the government.

This measure aimed at only improving the Armenian education system somehow managed to cause an wave of indignation and fury amongst the more conservative elements of the Armenian society, chief amongst these was the Armenian Apostolic church, who made silly claims that this new law was a threat to the Armenian culture.

The - unfortunately unpopular - Armenian government didn’t want to face directly the influential church so they choose to ignore the protests and hope the priests got tired and got back to praying.




This proved to be a terrible course of action, the church held too much power over the people and under its negative influence the Armenians started to refuse to comply to the new law and even go to such lengths as to attack government officials
The situation quickly started to escalate to such a point that the Armenian Agitators started to organize Ottoman book burnings and destroy several shops owned by ethnic Turks.

Such situation was unforgivable and the Ottoman authorities started to pressure the Armenian government to do something about this mess, the Armenians were quick to comply.






This however only made the situation deteriorate even more, the arrest of the priests led to a full scale revolts and the government progressively lost control of more and more provinces until they had only direct influence in the capital and surrounding regions. Completely under siege from all sides, impotent and with the army whispering of betrayal, the Armenian government had no choice but too request Ottoman intervention.

Seeing their vassal in such predicament and the ethnic Turks being literally hunted down by angry mobs. the Ottoman had no choice but to send some troops.




Under the command of General Osman Pasha, three divisions entered Armenian territory to restore order. Luckily despite fierce resistance the rebels were clearly poorly trained, disorganized and lacking any central leadership, no match to the professional Ottoman soldiers. The entrance of the Ottoman soldiers also gave a decisive push for the Armenian army to fully commit to their responsibilities and restore order to the country.
The rebellion was crushed in one week though sporadic partisan activity remained.


Most of the international community considered the Ottoman intervention justified, with the notable exception of Russia who loudly protested considering this a breach of Armenian sovereignty. Their hypocrisy would be revealed just a couple of weeks later.

In the Caucasus, the Cossacks exposed a Russian led conspiracy to coup their nation and annex it after the civil war. Knowing full well that they had no chance to beat Russia in a full frontal war, they decided to strike first and open a second front in the Russian Civil war.
However they were too late, a mere few hours before, the White troops had entered St. Petersburg, forced the Bolshevik Government to capitulate and executed the high ranking members for treason.




Back in the Ottoman Empire the fate of Armenia was under discussion, though some members of the government wished to formally annex Armenia into the Empire - citing its inability to protect itself - it was decided that the Ottoman Empire was already too stretch out and last thing it needed was a new unruly province. Power was given back to the Armenian Government and an Ottoman Garrison was put under their command to help keep order.

In the German Empire a nearly identical situation occurred. Lithuanians fearing the “germanification” of the nation, overthrew the German appointed government. The Kaiser of course didn’t let this go unanswered and after a short war of obvious conclusion the old government was restored and the traitors executed.


In the beginning of 1938 the Ottoman economy further stabilized thanks to the German investment once again returning. With the return to the pre-crash days in sight, the government could once again invest in the modernization of the military and industry.



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*In case of anyone knows some stuff of the Turkish-Russian wars you may have recognized this guy, and you may know that IRL he died way before the Great War, I guess the KR team had an hard time getting Ottoman leaders and had to resurrect some I will just pretend any guy in a similar situation to this one is just another unrelated person .

MastahCheef117 said:

I tried an Ottoman Kaiserreich game a couple weeks ago. I spent the first several years in my so-called "Four Year Plan" of the modernization of the army and navy, infrastructure building & industry expansion. The mass rebellions from the Libyans and Kurds came as a surprise, though. I barely pulled through alive O_O

Subscribed, anticipating what will come

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Thanks. In retrospective I should really have put some of my IC in the industry, but I have focused mostly in building new divisions knowing that there was a good chance that I would have to face a multi-front war (Egypt, Hashmite Arabia, Persia + rebels)

Ivir Baggins said:

Don't you have any better teams for Armor Division Formation?

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No actually, so I just put it with the highest skill team available.

Chapter V: An old foe returns​

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Ottoman Intelligence Services revealed that the Georgians had been infiltrating the neighbouring Caucasian nations. According to the leaked documents, Beria had plans to create a Transcausian nation, uniting all the Caucasus in a single totalist state. Though no direct link between them and the Armenian unrest was established, the Ottomans highly suspect that they may had some hand in it.


Once again an invasion of Georgia was put under consideration and once again it was decided that it would not be the best course of action to stretch the Ottoman forces to thin, especially after large shipments of weapons coming from Persia and heading to the Kurd provinces were captured by the Ottoman. The Kurds were always a problematic minority in the Empire and knowing that the Persian government may be arming them was very bad news.


In North Africa the Tuareg revolted against the National France. The exiled French elite had ruthlessly exploited the North African natives and resources, sick of this situation the Tuareg tribes organized themselves in a confederacy and declared independence. Though the land where they resided was pretty much inhospitable by French standards, it was rich in resources and loosing such vast amount of territories would be a terrible blow for the already low National French morale. Immediately a retaliatory force was organized and sent to literally to the middle of the desert to hunt the Tuareg tribes.


This event would not have much importance in the Ottoman Empire if not for the leader of the Kurd nationalists making public proclamation of support, exalting the bravery of the Tuareg rebels who outnumbered and under equipped fought bravely against their foreign oppressor.
The Ottoman government was quite worried by this, the Kurds were getting more and more restless and starting to openly defy the government, under the risk of under-manning the borders with Hashmite Arabia, more divisions were relocated to the region to try to pacify the population.


In the USA the civil war was finally over. With the exceptions of the West Coast, New England and Alaska, the country was completely ravaged. Cities laid in ruins, infrastructure was destroyed and several millions of American citizens died either because of the fighting or health issues - diseases and malnutrition were way too common during those dark days.

The partial winner of the Civil war was the legitimate USA government, though initially they were overrun by all sides, in an final act of desperation they made a pact with the Pacific Union State, recognizing it’s independence in exchange for military support. The CSA and the AUS were no match against the combined PSA and USA forces and after months of bitter fighting the USA government came victorious, thought their prize was only a shell of an once mighty country.


In the Far east the situation too subdued, the Japanese crushed the nationalist rebellions and the Algostasien GmbH defeated the Chinese revolutionaries, however their victory was short lived. The fight against the Shangqing Tianguo and the Mongols reawakened the Qing nationalist spirit and an ultimatum was sent to Germany.The Qing Empire would only continue to cooperate with the German Empire if they gave back the rest of China back to rightful Qing rule, if not there would be war. The Germans were forced to comply, the Chinese market was very important for the German economy and fighting a war against such a populous country in the other side of the world was just not feasible, they needed every spare troop in their cold war with the French Commune and all their troops stationed in Asia were with their hands full fighting a syndicalist insurgency in Indochina.

In the Caucasus the Russian-Cossack war ended in an overwhelming Russian victory. Though Cossacks fought bravely for their freedom, they were completely outnumbered by the hardened Russian hordes. The Russian border being now so close to the Empire was already worrying news but the worst was yet to come.



After decades a Romanov once again sat in the Russian throne, the Russian Empire was back.

Denekin was once a White officer that fought for the Tsarist regime, it was well possible that his brutal dictatorship was just a way to eliminate any potential political opponents to pave the way for the return of the Tsar.
Part of a plan or not, it was an intelligent move from his part, the Tsar provided a familiar symbol of power and glory were the war torn people of Russia could rally around.

The restored Empire bent on reclaiming its break away provinces started to apply pressure. It's first victim was Georgia were an Russian backed coup to overthrew Beria’s government was attempted, however the Russians were too overconfident and underestimated Georgia’s considerable intelligence network which completely foiled their plans by arresting the conspirators on the eve of the coup, Georgia would not rejoin Russia easily.


In National France the Tuareg rebellion was crushed, it was a very costly campaign for the French, in their rush to destroy the rebels they ended up losing enornous amount of troops to the climate and guerilla strikes.
The key to the French victory was their airpower, planes were crucial to locate the nomad tribes that otherwise land forces would take weeks hunting and the Tuaregs lack of any anti-air powers also made them an easy prey for French bombers.

This campaign was carefully studied by the Ottoman strategists, the conditions where it occurred were very similar with the ones of the Ottoman Empire, much could be learned from it study.
However there would be no time for the studies to sink in.


The Ottoman greatest fear finally happened, the Kurds declared independence from the Empire - taking control of vast lands. The government new full well that this would start a terrible domino effect that could potentially destroy the Empire.

Whatever the result of this conflict,the Empire would never be the same again.



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So it begins, the next update will finally involve some warfare.

Also I kind of rushed out this update some stuff has been keep me busy this days

I need some suggestions, does anyone know a good way of breaking Egypt? Both of us are entrenched in our side of the Suez with no chance of breaking through.

@Wombats O' War: I thought of that, but it seems a bit too late to focus on the navy now, I can't really think of any other plan than try to exhaust their manpower reserves

@Praetonia & Cybvep :Thanks


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Chapter VI: The Kurd rebellion​

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The Kurds launched coordinated attacks through all territory against Ottoman authorities. It was clear the rebellion had been planned for a while, such level of organization was unprecedented until now.

Equipped with foreign weapons - most likely provided by Persia - they managed to overwhelm the unaware Ottomans, managing to even route several divisions stationed in the border with Persia.

Without any border guard, dozens of well equipped Kurds flocked from Persia to Kurdistan, the Persian government denied any involvement in this, claiming that they were leaving by their own free will and it’s was not their business to meddle in their affairs.


In Albania, Prime Minister Zog took this chance to overthrow the legitimate Government. The Ottomans couldn’t let this be and officially declared war to Albania, however this was just a paper threat for they couldn’t spare any troops at the moment. The unfortunate Ottoman Garrison in Tirana was left alone to fend for itself and despite having put a brave last stand they ended up torn in pieces by angry Albanian mobs.


The Sultan of Oman too followed Zog’s example and proclaimed independence. The Ottoman government knowing that it was impossible to send troops to Oman had to reluctantly let them go, though they never officially recognized the formal independence of the Omani people


Back in Kurdistan, The Ottoman Army recovered from the initial shock, the Ottoman High Command under the Leadership of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, quickly devise a strategy.
Though there were no divisions protecting the west, the Ottomans had more than enough troops in the north and south to create two fronts and keep the Kurds on the defensive.

The northern front containing just 5 division and would be under the Command of Osman Pasha - who had been stationed near Armenia after the Armenian crisis.

The Southern front would be under the commander General Avni Pasha who would command 17 divisions, most of them arriving fresh from the border with the Hashemites

The plan was quite simple, both fronts had to launch simultaneous strikes before the Kurds could create an proper defensive line, speed was the key. The main push would be on Mosul - the provisory capital of the Kurd government – if they could cut the head of the beast, the rest of the Kurds would be left without orientation and be an easy pick for the Ottoman troops.


Tragedy struck the Ottoman, Mustafa Kemal Pasha - while visiting the Southern front - had a stroke and died shortly after.
It was a sad day for the Empire, Mustafa Kemal was one of the main proponents for reform in the Empire and although not liked by the old Ottoman elite, he was very popular amongst the general population and especially amongst the army. Thousands appeared in Constantinople to pay respects to the Hero of Gallipoli.


In Albania the young government was besieged from all sides, they may have beaten the Ottomans and even managed to sign a cease-fire but opportunist neighbours took this chance to make claim on Albanian land. Zog couldn’t do nothing but watch while foreign forces occupied several provinces.


Oman wasn’t faring any better than Albania, without Ottoman protection the German quickly moved in, expanding their Arabian possessions.


While the Ottoman offensive into Kurdistan was taking place the Arab nationalists started to stir, in despair the Ottoman government started to grant much more autonomy to the Arabs. This was just a stalling tactic; the Ottomans fully knew that an Arab revolt was now inevitable; they could only hope that when it finally occurred the Kurd rebellion would be over and the Ottoman army free to deal with the Arabs.


In Kurdistan the Ottoman offensive was a success, after fierce fighting, Mosul was captured and with it most of the Kurd leadership. All was going according to plan, now it was just a matter of cleaning up the Kurd holdouts.

Just a couple of weeks later the Kurds surrendered. As the Ottoman leadership predicted, without their leaders the Kurds couldn’t coordinate their defense. Outnumbered and facing constant air bombardments their provinces fell one by one. In the end the remaining Kurd fighters either surrender to Ottoman soldiers hoping leniency or went into hiding.
The Kurd rebellion was finally over.

In the North , Georgia once again faced a potential Russian coup, the Georgian government in panic due to the increasing unrest provoked by Russia, ordered their troops to invade Russia.


Of course an invasion of Russia was pure madness; the Russian army quickly defeated the Georgian and occupied the small country.

The Russians were becoming an ever increasing threat on the Ottoman backyard, recently they had too taken control of Azerbaijan, leaving Armenia the only country in Caucasus where the Ottomans still held influence.


The Russian Empire had quickly gone from a shattered nation to a monster that could rival the Germany itself. There was no point now to oppose Russia diplomatically so the Ottoman Diplomatic corps made their first priority to slowly improve the sour relations between the two countries.


In Spain the civil war was finally over, in the early days of the war the Kingdom loyalists were quickly overwhelmed, but the CNT-FAI and the Carlists were evenly matched and the bloody war dragged from months, claiming countless lives both soldier and civilian . However the CNT-FAI had one key advantage, they bordered the Commune of France and were receiving a constant stream of volunteers and material.

The Carlists knew full well this would be their demise and if the war would drag much longer defeat would be inevitable. So they launched a desperate attack with all the forces they could muster to attempt to attempt to cut the connection between the two.

It was an astonishing success, the CNT-FAI was not prepared and was completely cut off from France, loosing Barcelona itself. The capture of Barcelona was the Carlist greatest victory, and also led to the greatest tragedy in the war, the Sack of Barcelona. The Carlists considering Barcelona the heart of syndicalism treated all the citizens as if tainted by the ideology, great atrocities were made that day against the civilian population.

This offensive however proved to be the Carlists undoing. The troops they pulled from other fronts led to their collapse and the atrocities in Barcelona only strengthened the syndicalism resolve.

Only a few months after the sack, the Carlists were reduced to the gains made in the offensive, and in a fit of irony, Barcelona, their greatest victory, ended as their final tomb.**


Just a few days later after the victor in Spain, the French Commune –perhaps inspired by the victory in Spain - sent an Ultimatum to the German Empire, Alsace-Lorraine or War.
The German response was no a surprise; Europe would drown in blood again.

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*I mixed Osman with Avni, my bad. I put the correct general in the old update.

**This actually happened, the Carlists conquered all northern Spain including Barcelona but then they started to loose all their other provinces until they were only left with literally Barcelona and neighbouring provinces.

One small question. Would the Muslim let a German to lead the defence of Mecca if he quickly converted to islam just before the battle? Because that would make an interesting episode since It actually happened in my game.

Chapter VII: The Great Arab War​

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In Europe the chains of Alliances of both powers triggered The Federacion Anarquista Iberica, Socialist Republic of Italia, Iceland and the Union of Britain quickly joined the Commune of France in their struggle against reaction.

The nations of MittleEuropa too immediately sent their troops to join the Germans in the front. And there was the curious case Poland – not bond with Germany by alliance- also decided too declare war to syndicalists since they too recognized syndicalism as a major threat, however they refused to coordinate their operations with MittleEuropa*.

Though the Internationale managed to launch an offensive through Flander-Wallonia - managing to capture several provinces – reinforcements from the rest of MittleEuropa forced them to stop and defend their positions. Just a few days after the war started, it had already stalled into trench warfare.



In Anatolia a major earthquake occurred, completely leveling the city of Erzincan. More than 8000 people were killed in the first stage and several thousand more died from floods, disease and malnutrition.
The Empire did not spare any efforts to help the people of the region even with all the unrest going on and the construction of a new city further north immediately started, this significantly improved the opinion of the Empire in the eyes of the region inhabitants.


The 25th anniversary of the Weltkrieg was marked by more angry Arab riots. The situation was once again getting out control; the Empire had to do something definitive to crush the Arab nationalism once and for all.
After much pondering the Ottoman Empire declared war to Hashemite Arabia, the upstart Arab state had been a thorn on the side of the Ottomans since the Weltkrieg , it’s very existence fostered the arabs wild dreams, this had to be stopped.


Arab nationalists through the Empire rose in rebellion against both the Imperial authorities and the Arabs who remained loyal, from Mecca to Kuwait clashes occurred.
The Egyptians of course perceived the war as an aggression against the Arab culture and in support of their Hashemite brethren they declared war to the Ottoman Empire.


The Empire knew full well that they needed the full might of their army to defeat the Arabs. It was time to see if the rapprochement policy with Russia was successful. Prince Nihad was sent to Moscow to negotiate with the Tsar a non-aggression pact.


The negotiations were a success, the Russians were tired of conflicts for now and too wished to have their border with the Ottomans secured. They happily signed the pact, from hereby on Constantinople and Moscow would be friends.

Now the Ottomans could safely relocate the troops from the Caucasus to Arabia.



In the Suez the Egyptians and Ottomans entrenched themselves in their respective shores and started exchanging artillery fire, though the Egyptians wished to relief their Hashemite brethren they hadn’t enough troops to launch an amphibious offensive, same thing for the Ottomans who couldn’t launch an invasion with half of their army busy elsewhere.


The Hashemite theatre was under the command of Cihangirzade İbrahim. The Ottomans severely outnumbered the Hashemites and besides the harsh climate the Campaign didn’t seem to present much of a challenge for the Ottoman soldiers.



The real problem was the rebels popping up in the Ottoman territory. Several divisions were moved to try to crush them but their vicious guerrilla tactics were taking their tool in the Ottomans troops.
The fiercest fight of them all was the Mecca uprising. The holy city attracted arab freedom fighters like a candle attracted moths.

During the first days of fighting the Ottomans suffered heavy losses, the city would be lost if not for fresh recruits arriving under the command of the Major General Adolph. Adolph was part of the German Mission to the Ottoman Empire that had been there since the Weltkrieg to help train the Ottoman Army, he had been conducting training exercises in the region when the Arab rebellions broke.

Though fresh recruits were a welcome sight for the exhausted garrison, Adolph provided a problem since he was an infidel and therefore they couldn’t let him enter the holy city. Adolph being a pragmatist and knowing is knowledge and experience were essential to salvage the situation, announced that he would convert to Islam if they let him take command of the defenses. Though some of soldiers had hesitations about this quick conversion, they brought a local Imam to him and a few hours later Adolph converted to Islam.

This proved to be the correct decision, thanks to Adolph’s command a certain defeat turned into a startling victory, and to the surprise of those who had doubted Adolph commitment to the new faith since that battle he proved to be a perfect example of a good Muslim, respecting all practices and costumes.

Back in Hashemite Arabia, the Ottomans dealt a major defeat against the Hashemite army in Hayel and preceded their advance, reaching the outskirts Ryahd.


Tripolitania seeing the success of the Albanian and Oman rebellions too declared independence, the Ottomans promptly declared war to the rogue Tripolitanian government.


In Ryahd the Ottomans troops defeated the army defending the city and occupied the Hashemite capital, capturing the Sultan himself.

Under the promise that he and his family would be unharmed and sent to exile, the Sultan signed a surrender treaty, passing all the Hashemite territories to Ottoman Admistration and formally disbanding what remained of the Hashemite Army.

With the Hashemite defeated the Ottomans could fully focus on Egypt


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* For some reason Poland decided to declare war to Iceland a couple of days after the war started