Oriental Crisis of 1840

Target entity: Oriental Crisis of 1840
Context triple: [Royal Navy operations on the Levantine coast, conflict, Oriental Crisis of 1840]

• A. Eastern Crisis of 1875–1878
  The Eastern Crisis of 1875–1878 was a series of Balkan uprisings and wars against Ottoman rule that triggered great-power intervention and reshaped the political map of Southeastern Europe.
• B. Quemoy Crisis
  The Quemoy Crisis refers to two Cold War-era military confrontations in the 1950s between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China over the offshore islands of Quemoy (Kinmen), which drew in U.S. involvement and heightened cross-strait tensions.
• C. Abadan Crisis
  The Abadan Crisis was a major early-1950s confrontation between Iran and Britain over the nationalization of Iran’s oil industry, centered on the Abadan refinery and escalating tensions that helped set the stage for the 1953 Iranian coup.
• D. Otrar Incident
  The Otrar Incident was a diplomatic and commercial conflict in 1218, when the governor of the Khwarazmian city of Otrar ordered the arrest and execution of a Mongol trade caravan, provoking Genghis Khan’s invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire.
• E. Raid on the Sublime Porte
  The Raid on the Sublime Porte was a 1913 political coup in the Ottoman Empire in which the Committee of Union and Progress seized control of the government by force in Istanbul.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Oriental Crisis of 1840
Target entity description: The Oriental Crisis of 1840 was an international confrontation in the Eastern Mediterranean in which the Ottoman Empire, backed by Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, forced Muhammad Ali of Egypt to relinquish his territorial gains, reshaping the balance of power in the region.

• A. Eastern Crisis of 1875–1878
  The Eastern Crisis of 1875–1878 was a series of Balkan uprisings and wars against Ottoman rule that triggered great-power intervention and reshaped the political map of Southeastern Europe.
• B. Quemoy Crisis
  The Quemoy Crisis refers to two Cold War-era military confrontations in the 1950s between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China over the offshore islands of Quemoy (Kinmen), which drew in U.S. involvement and heightened cross-strait tensions.
• C. Abadan Crisis
  The Abadan Crisis was a major early-1950s confrontation between Iran and Britain over the nationalization of Iran’s oil industry, centered on the Abadan refinery and escalating tensions that helped set the stage for the 1953 Iranian coup.
• D. Otrar Incident
  The Otrar Incident was a diplomatic and commercial conflict in 1218, when the governor of the Khwarazmian city of Otrar ordered the arrest and execution of a Mongol trade caravan, provoking Genghis Khan’s invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire.
• E. Raid on the Sublime Porte
  The Raid on the Sublime Porte was a 1913 political coup in the Ottoman Empire in which the Committee of Union and Progress seized control of the government by force in Istanbul.
• F. None of above. chosen