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Constantinople Not Istanbul

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A very quick one, based on a PoD I thought of while watching the Youtube series The Great War. 

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  • The PoD is the Entente succeeding in forcing the Dardanelle Straits in 1915, leading to a successful bombardment of Istanbul. The Black Sea becomes an Entente lake, and Entente forces succeed in resupplying Russia. The Central Powers are also attacked in the Balkans.
  • The Central Powers fight on until 1916, by which point they have been bled dry by the Entente.
  • The Kaiser remains on the throne, although his powers after the war are greatly curbed due to his taking the blame for the war. Wilhelm II dies a disgraced man.
  • The newly-crowned Charles I of Austria abdicates after a revolution breaks out, leading to the Entente sweeping in and establishing new, independent states.
  • The Ottoman Empire fights to the bitter end, resulting in a harsh partition being enforced upon them. Russia gets Constantinople, as promised.
  • The Entente breaks up after the war, as tolerance for Russian absolutism, anti-Semitism, and Russian dickery in the Eastern Mediterranean turns them against their former allies. However, no war breaks out between the two sides; too much fear of strategic bombing and, later, atomic weapons.
  • The United States never joined in the Great War, and regards the conflict as the height of European folly. They have much better relations with the British and French.
  • Decolonization is much more gradual, with the British and French establishing many post-colonial organizations to keep influential over the local strongmen leaders.
  • India was under a moderate INC leadership that maintains a democracy, but diplomatically turned to Petrograd after several disputes with Britain over the use of naval bases.
  • The Japanese and Chinese got into another war, that dragged in the British and French on the Chinese side. The war ended in a military coup against the government when they asked for a peace, and the coup government was overthrown several years later by Japanese communists. They are, of course, the local North Korea.
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About TTL:
1. What's the current status on Poland's sovereignty or at least autonomy?
2. What happened to the Constantinopolitan muslims?
3. How much power does the russian Duma wield at the current time frame?