Prussia - HOI4 - Converging on Constantinople (III)

30 Sep 1918: Breakthrough in Thrace and 8th Army troops immediately head north to the Bulgarian border while 5th Army is hot on the heals of the retreating Turks.
02 Dec 1918: 8th Army's advance guard swiftly outflanks the defenders then heads south to prevent retreating Turks from reaching Constantinople. 2nd echelon divisions will deal with the defenders in the Ottoman capital.
03 Oct 1918: Now 78% towards capitulation and look at how their losses have surged. Many of the merchants sunk in the last post certainly contained troops.
07 Oct 1918: 12 divisions from 8th Army are storming into Constantinople while a solitary division has successfully encircled the enemy defenders in Thrace.
11 Oct 1918: There is nowhere to retreat to. We are witnessing the final hours of the Ottoman Empire.
12 Oct 1918: The end is near in Asia Minor too.
More merchants are sunk near Malta.
Now 87% towards capitulation - the fall of Constantinople should finish off the Ottomans.
13 Oct 1918: Less than one day....
15 Oct 1918 and Constantinople has fallen! Turkish troops on the Asian side of the Straits of Bosphorus are also under attack from the west. We have also received the doctrine Counter-Offensive.
I select Improved Infantry Equipment II next.....
….and it's over. The Ottoman Empire only controls 2% of the nation's VPs. Izmir must have fallen too.
16 Aug 1918: The Treaty of the Aegean Islands is to be negotiated. A-H has 348 VPs which is less than my 513 points so I choose first.
I take what I originally wanted. The Arabian states on the Red Sea plus Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon. I also puppet Hejaz.
What? A-H gives me 333 points and Serbia 15 points. Damn. They want to avoid being hurt by World Tension. That leaves me in a dilemma because the Ottoman Empire of old no longer exists so Bulgaria, Greece and Italy no longer have their non-aggression pacts with the new Turkey. I don't want them to start another Balkan War and open the door for Italy or (even worse) the UK to step in.
So I take what I originally wanted, i.e. the rest of Ottoman Arabia and Kurdistan then European Turkey except Constantinople but including the Aegean Islands.
Finally I puppet Albania then what's left of Turkey. Hopefully we shall now have a lasting Peace in the region.
The final picture. I have more than what I wanted but I am still guaranteeing the independence of Greece and Bulgaria. I guess that makes Germany the Kingmaker in this part of the world.
Well that is the icing on the cake. The Ottoman Empire joins the Central Powers!
The next post won't be "German Empire 5.0". Everything has already been explained. Bis bald....

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