 Along with Turkey's aspirations to join the European Union population groups with specificities started receiving more attention on the basis of their ethnicity or culture.In Middle Eastern countries, which were created from the dismembered Ottoman Empire (and were initially under British protectorate) the fate of the ethnos was better.The "Al Jeish al Arabi" (Arab Legion), created in Trans-Jordan under the influence of Lawrence, in significant part consisted of Chechens — arguably because the Bedouin were reluctant to serve under the centralized command.