"AHC: Turkey joins the Axis in/by 1940" Topic
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| Tango01 | 13 Jul 2022 8:43 p.m. PST |
"If Turkey picked team Axis this would have changed a lot. Military access to the middle east. The Suez canal and Egypt fall. Axis get Egyptian and maybe some Saudi oil. Not to mention the options this would open up should the Axis go for Russia.
I gather that OTL Britain was paying Turkey a lot not to do this.
I present a scenario deemed implausible in other threads. Your challenge: come up with a plausible one…"
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| WarpSpeed | 23 Jul 2022 5:59 a.m. PST |
In the Avalon Hill classic Third Reich gaining Turkey as an axis minor ally is useful on the east front.Probably more so than gaining Spain.Never tried getting both onboard. |
| donlowry | 23 Jul 2022 9:07 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 23 Jul 2022 3:46 p.m. PST |
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| donlowry | 26 Jul 2022 6:03 p.m. PST |
Had Turkey joined the Axis, it would have given the USSR an excuse, once it gained the upper hand in Russia, to break into the Mediterranean! Something Britain had been trying to prevent for ages. |
| Tango01 | 27 Jul 2022 3:37 p.m. PST |
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adds a tower to his 15mm trainyard.
