How could the Ottoman Empire respond if Greece acquired a much larger postwar fleet?
Short answerWith great difficulty: defeat, internal crisis, and external pressure left the Ottoman state poorly placed to answer a major Greek naval expansion.
NotesThe question gives Greece a substantially enlarged fleet and asks how the Ottoman Empire could respond. Panic is the immediate answer. The Ottoman state had just emerged on the losing side of a major war and was under both internal and external pressure. The naval problem therefore could not be separated from the empire's broader political and fiscal collapse, which sharply limited any symmetrical building response.