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No as Muhammad Ali loses the leverage he needs and shit rolls downhill as the Europeans have contradictory goals and can't commit to their prior agreements and the internal politics of the Sublime Porte under Mahmud II were utter shit which made it easier for the Europeans to push him around...

The Bakri-Busnach affair was a pretext made out of whole cloth. If the Ottomans had won decisively at Navarino, it would have blown over as the Ottomans would have won the war in Greece and been able to send sufficient forces instead of having several spats between Muhammad Ali and the Sublime...