Greater Middle East

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The Greater Middle East is a political term invented to refer to the Islamic World englobing the non-Arabic countries of Turkey, Iran, Israel, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Various Central Asian countries and the lower Caucasus (Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia) are sometimes also included. Occasionally North India is also included because of the role Islam and Muslim culture plays there.

This expanded term was introduced in the summer of 2004 at a G8 summit by U.S. President George W. Bush^{[citation needed]} as part of a proposal for sweeping change in the way the West deals with the Middle East. This initiative is aimed at the Muslim world in the region and promoted heavily by neoconservative think tanks such as Project for the New American Century. It was outlined around the Helsinki Accords from 1975.

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Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire

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