About the Turks starting position

[Aracnid]

Jerusalem was under the Egyptian Caliphate not the Turks.

[Kavhan Isbul]

Jerusalem was under the Egyptian Caliphate not the Turks.

Are you sure? I think the Fataimids recaptured Jerusalem from the Seljuks only a few years before the First Crusade arrived there.

I would personally like to see a strong Muslim power in the game, controlling the Holy Lands. Otherwise crusades will be dull. Maybe this is why the Seljuks and the Egyptians have a relatively easier starting position.

[Polemists]

I don't think turks have it that easy. My understanding from dev stuff I have read is that the Five starting factions (much like rome) are not just chosen because there catholic and therefore have the pope political aspect but are also chosen because they all not hard to start as. HRE probably being hardest of starting five.

Also yes the turks do run into Egypt later on but I hardly think Egypt will be a push over.