>I'd break the adjacency between Konya / Armenia and instead make Ankara & Damascus adjacent.<
An interesting proposal; never saw it anywhere else. Does Baron have an opinion?
I like your rationale, as too often Damascus feels like a far away outpost like Algeria or Egypt rather than a decent third home center. Improving Turkey's defensibility shouldn't create a dangerous ripple effect on the rest of the board, I hope.
A similar situation is faced by France, with Marseilles being isolated and too often victim of an Italian attack (A MIL-SWI, A ROM-PIE). I believe, like Baron does, that adding Tuscany back would ease tensions between the two weakest powers of 1900.
Turkey is in the back of the pack indeed, but even more behind we have Italy & France, two powers practically doomed to conflict due to multiple zones of tension, especially in Piedmont/Switzerland. As you can see here (http://uk.diplom.org/pouch//Zine/F2014R/Powell/france2.htm) France is now dead last in overall performance with its two primary neighbors, Germany & Britain, sporting superior performances.
Can't we have both proposals, in the hopes of a better experience? *.*