When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Turkey was established ... It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and ...

By asserting itself as the successor to the Ottoman Empire, Turkey is reshaping the ... s actions do not explicitly seek to redraw national borders, its administration of Syrian territories ...

Why is Syria such a mess? You can blame the European colonial powers for redrawing the borders in the region in 1918-20 after the collapse of the Ottoman empire. The new borders paid little heed ...