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===Rising anti-British & anti-Russian sentiment===
====Russo-Ottoman relations====
The [[Ottoman Empire]] underwent political modernization in the early 20th century. The rise of the [[Ottoman Sultanate#Hatayism%20and%20Orkhonism|Orkhonist faction]] began fueling a revanchist attitude towards Crimea, which was once part of the Ottoman Empire,
In the 1930s, the Orkhonists spread anti-Russian and anti-British revanchist propaganda throughout the empire. The Orkhonists renewed a territorial claim in Crimea, based on the sultan's familial relations with the old Crimean Giray dynasty. They also promoted the idea of a Greater Ottoman state, one that controlled Egypt, and therefore controlled the Mediterranean. They found an ally in Austria and France, who also had their own resentments against the British and Russians. In 1929, the three states formed the Tripartite Coalition, which strengthened their relationship and cooperation.
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