[Antoninus]

A civil war in Turkey would invite Balkin Christians to take the city back.

They had a chance to do that in 1919. We should have supported them in the effort.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

Back then, it wouldn't even have taken "support" from the West, just the removal of Great Britains' stupid interference with the Greek drive toward reclaiming Constantinople. Too bad Churchill was pro-Turkish at that moment in history, and messed up everything in the Middle East. GB's historical decline to irrelevance is only fair.