A military coup had taken place in the Ottoman Empire! The news rapidly spread across the world.
"Rhine Daily": Rhine News Agency, December 3, 1926—Ottoman Empire General Kemal and his supporters had launched a military coup in Istanbul. Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI announced a government reshuffle and appointed Kemal Grand Vizier of the State Council (Prime Minister) of the Empire...
Greatly unlike in his previous life, after successfully seizing power, Kemal had not abolished the Ottoman Empire's monarchy and turned it into a republic.
When Kemal took over the Ottoman Empire in his previous life, the Ottomans had already effectively disintegrated, reduced to a shrunken Turkey. In this timeline, although the Ottoman Empire had continued to decline, it had at least weathered the First World War. Its territory had likewise shrunk dramatically, but it still held vast lands in the Middle East and retained many nominal dependencies.
The Ottoman Empire's actual effective territory was now less than two million square kilometers.
Even so, it was far larger than Turkey after the First World War in his previous life. Moreover, the lands retained by the Ottoman Empire could be considered relatively fertile agricultural regions within the Middle East.
Besides the Ottoman Empire's core Anatolian Plateau, the Mesopotamian Plain, Syria and Lebanon, the Jordan Valley, and other areas were all major agricultural producing regions in the Middle East.
The existence of these regions meant that the Ottoman Empire still had the potential to become a world power, provided it could continue maintaining its present borders.
Kemal had considered precisely this, which was why he chose to preserve the Ottoman monarchy. Like the Habsburgs, the Ottoman imperial family was also an important bond holding the various regions of the Ottoman Empire together.
If the Ottoman monarchy were abolished, it would undoubtedly give those