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Sunni? Shi'a? Alawite? Sunni, I'm presuming, since Turks themselves are mostly Sunni, right?

Makes sense. BTW, if Turkey ever decides to get involved in Syria in this TL, who is likely to be its desired puppet ruler of Syria?

Only if it wants to. Though it already has the Golan Heights.

FWIW, France actually did split Syria (which then included Lebanon) into several separate units back when it controlled it in the interwar era:

Russia simply needs a reliable man in Syria; it doesn't necessarily have to be Assad if he'll ever end up showing that he's no longer useful. Though sponsoring coups has sort of gone out of style in recent decades. Still, Russia attempted something like this in Montenegro several years ago, IIRC.

I wonder if he is gay: https://www.google.com/search?q=Suheil+al-Hassan+gay&source=lmns&bih=937&biw=1920&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiGorCO7rX5AhX_FzQIHQk8D-kQ_AUoAHoECAEQAA

FWIW, I suspect that it's entirely possible that a rump ISIS state could survive in Syria for a long time even if ISIS is expelled from Iraq. I don't know if any of the Syrian factions would actually be able to remove the ISIS presence in Syria without significant foreign, especially but not...

BTW, this is why exactly Syria is so crucial to Iran: Specifically, because it allows Iran to have a land bridge to the Mediterranean, where its Hezbollah proxy is located in southern Lebanon: Libya had nowhere near as much value for Iran, or for Russia for that matter. It has a lot of oil...

It depends on just how involved Turkey wants to be here. Maybe if Turkey wants to clean up the mess in Syria after the West fucks up Syria and is actually willing to commit huge amounts of its own (Turkish) resources into this task, then Turkey might be able to install its own man in charge of...

Bashar al-Assad, not Bashir al-Assad. Expect a much larger Syrian migrant crisis in this TL, for one. And Yes, I actually could see Damascus falling to ISIS in this TL. The Syrian Alawites could be reduced to a narrow coastal strip on the Mediterranean, which Russia could help them keep thanks...