I have no idea. Never really studied the regional campaigns there. Except for an outline. I should look it up. I know Egypt was used repeatedly in that time period.

Obviously that would've been a move into Ottoman territory from Egypt which homed the British army. It used a lot of militias against the Ottomans and sultanates. There was large campaign into the Sudan. Again across the Arabian Peninsula which had British bases. Persia wasn't favorable to the Ottomans. Of course it wasn't simply the British there were French and Russians.