Fair enough. When I think WW1 Middle East, it is the Ottoman Empire that comes to mind and therefore includes all the involved territories that the Ottoman's encompassed, regardless of exact geographic local. -- AlHoping to act as a peacemaker but when I think of the Middle East, I don't think of Turkey. Geographically that is more Europe and I believe that the Middle East from a WW I perspective would be Transjordan and what is now known as Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria.