[quote=@Dinh AaronMk]
[@Letter Bee]

If we're operating on the basis that Muhammad Ali has at least half-independence in the eyes of some or most of the European courts: no. Those would be core Turkish territories and what trade is going on would be between Egypt and the Ottomans, who probably being salty that they didn't wrestle a contentious subject back into order may not be willing to sell those resources in order to curb their influence on the Mediterranean 
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Hmm, do Syria and Cilicia have timber-able woods, then? Or goods that the French or Russians might desire enough to exchange timber and technology for?