@Atlantis
That is an accident of history. If the British and French hadn't occupied most of the region, Germany could have cooperated with other countries.
Sure it would have
. Germany's past track record in that regard is not good. As it is, the Germanic-dominated EU has done little to satisfy German ambitions...
As it is, Turkey was the only major country not yet under their control.
Occupying a good deal of the Middle East at the time. A prize plum had Germany and it's allies won in WWI.
Considering that the "Berlin to Baghdad" railway was never built because London knew how to prevent it, the only remaining trace of the German empire in the region is a fictitious railway.
Ah yes, blame the British
. Being German oftentimes in my experience means never having to say you're sorry; or if you do, not really meaning it, just being upset that you lost.
Remarkably, to you a fiction is more important than the dozens of very real conflicts in the ME and the world the British empire has left behind.
''Fiction''? The close relationship between Germany and Turkey is now a ''fiction''?