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Player1x3 said:
Turkish said:
Player1x3 said:
Turkish said:
Player1x3 said:
Turkish said:
I think Turkey should govern the whole Middle east again, during Turkish rule it was the longest time of peace for over 600 years. No problem between the jews, xtians or muslims living in those lands. Just like the Balkans. When Turks retreated, all hell broke lose lol.


Yeah because all the violence was done by the Turks already so people didn't need extra blood


Yeah, those subjects try to sell you the most horrible horror stories about Turks lol. Truth is, they're still there, they have their religion and language intact. We can't say the same thing about European colonnists who enslaved their people whereas Turks gave their subjects equal rights, many of our subjects were ministers and viziers. highest positions you could get with no noble blood in the empire.


Yeah and taking young christian children from their family and train them to fight for Ottomans and then make them burn their own villages (janissary)


Those poor starving families from the Balkans were happy to send their children to elite schools in Istanbul where they got the best training and education possible. No way did they burn villages in their own vilayets and empire, are you insane? Contrary to your belief there was unity back in the empire before nationalism showed its ugly face 100 years ago.


Those families were poor and starving exclusively thanks to the Turks. And the only education they got is on how to kill and slay most efficiently. And there are numerous folk songs throughout Balkans about mothers dismembering their own children so the Turks wouldn't take them away and how janissary soldiers unknowingly burned their own villages and killed their families.

Out of all people that were under Ottoman rule, the Balkans people had it THE WORST, they were the most terrorized people by the Ottomans, probably because of a large non-muslim population there.

Like I said, stupid fake horror stories. They live at the mercy of Turks, we couldve easily enslaved them and enforce our own religion and langauge upon them like the European colonnists but we didn't.

 

And please, stop with your lies. You dont know any history about this region at all, only from biased sources. For instance, when the Ottomans entered the region, Fatih Sultan Mehmet II gave the worlds first order for religious freedom to the christians in that area, to quote him:

on 28 May 1463, to grant safety and security to the Fransiscans. This pledge reads as follows: quote "I, sultan Mehmet Han, inform the entire world that those who posses these imperial edicts, the Bosnia Fransiscans, are in my good graces and do hereby command: let nobody bother or disturb neither those mentioned nor their churches. Let them dwell in peace in my empire. And let those who have become refugees be allowed to do so and be safe. Let them return and let them settle in their monasteries without fear in all countries of my empire" unquote. And it goes on then says "Let nobody attack, insult or endanger their life or their property, nor their property of their church

Another one about Jerusalem:

Another example from another region of the Empire is the decree which was issued by Sultan Selim in May 1517 when he entered Jerusalem, to patriarchs in and around Jerusalem. The document given to the Armenian Patriarch Serkis guaranteed all the previous religious rights and institutions of the Christians.

Do you know the Ottoman millet system? It means "people".

 

As for the muslim population of the balkans. Muslims were almost 50% of the population of the balkans prior to the Balkan wars. Around 5 million Balkan Turks were persecuted from the Balkans when Turks lost the wars. Another couple of millions of Bosnians and Albanians were persecuted and found refuge in Turkey because of racist attacks of orthodox xtians. My own family was persecuted from the Balkans 100 years ago.

So please, STFU when you talk about these matters and who had it the worst.