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It probably would have if the Russian empire had won ww1
It probably would have if the Russian empire had won ww1
It actually did for a few short years as an independent city-state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_(1919%E2%80%931922) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_(1919%E2%80%...
That’s also why the Crimean war was fought.