I had a talk with a few people regarding the Middle East. Supposedly Turkey aren't keen on getting merged with anybody but Azerbaijan because they don't deem the countries to be similar enough. Geographically, you're all in the middle east, and more importantly,
religion and politics are not related to the matter and should not in any way be involved. My proposal is to merge the countries listed under the "Traditional definition of the Middle East" and the "Greater Middle East" as following:
Middle East group A (temporary name)
SPOILER- Bahrain
Cyprus
Egypt
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Oman
State of Palestine
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Syria
United Arab Emirates
Yemen
Middle East group B (temporary name as well)
SPOILER- Afghanistan
Turkey
Algeria
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Comoros
Djibouti
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Libya
Mauritania
Morocco
Pakistan
Somalia
Sudan
Tajikistan
Tunisia
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Western Sahara Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
and more importantly, to disregard anything but the geographic location. Feel free to notify me of any problems that may arise with this, but do keep in mind that this is a game and you should keep political and personal matters out of it.
edit: turkey moved to group B despite the definition of the regions because of various concerns