fuck off d&c bozgor.    turks were essentially the peasant class and confined to the easternmost part of the empire. obviously, a portion of the ruling class, mainly the lower administrative clerks, were of turkish origin, but the majority of the administrative functions were run by non-turks and even non-muslims. this means that law, tax and janissary executive orders were all created and drafted by men of south slavic and albanian origin and merely signed by the sultan. all modern scholars of the ottoman empire (at least those who arent on turkeys immediate payroll) agree that prior to the final russo-turkish war, the ottomans have never defined or identified themselves as turks. even the majority of otto. sultans sought to reserve themselves away from the turkish identity. the only reason you hear the ottomans being referred to as turks prior to the beginning of ww1 is because the british and the french used it as an umbrella term to refer to all muslim caliphates/khanates around the levant, and sometimes even erroneously referring to arabs or mamluks as turks. but not to digress, one just needs to read the most important texts about administrative communication, or about which languages were spoken on the sultan' court. turkish was almost never used, while serb, persian and greek languages were always used, even arabic was more common before the nationalist uprising. turkey is a civic nation-state created by british and the french, to guarantee a weakness in anatolia so that saudi arabia, a chief proxy of western interests, may fully reap the profits of oil exploitation. and the reason we eat the same food, which in reality, is just popular street food, and is of anatolian greek and persian origin, is because of the ottoman empire, not the neologism of "turkish culture", since the ottomans were a arabo-persian muslim super-state, not a turkic khaganate, 88% of otto.
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