Colonization by the Ottoman Turks? Sure. But that's pre-WWI
Colonization by the Europeans? Very violent era, especially in what the Europeans took from the Turks.
In Mesopotamia (Iraq), you had the RAF bombing Arabs into surrender. In the French Mandate, there was the Franco-Syrian War. In Palestine, you had Arabs and Jews going at each other, and later on the Jews blowing up the Brits. And in Turkey itself, you had the final installment of Turks massacring Armenians. Why, the 1920s and 1930s were just peaceful in the Middle East.
And all that doesn't include the long campaign by France to colonize North Africa.
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