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Turkish on 12 February 2013
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Player1x3 said:
Turkish said:
One of the biggest genocide in human history. If the Spanish/Portuguese never came, South America would've been much more richer and stronger.


One of the biggest genocide in human history. If the Turks/Ottomans never came , Balkans and Middle East would've been much more richer and stronger 

I disagree, before Turks entered the place there were wars among the peoples, Turks brought peace and prosperity, as soon as we left the place started having wars again. The Yugoslavian wars, the Arab/jewish conflict, sectarian wars in ME. We brought people from different religion and ethnicity together, whenever christian minorities were persecuted in Europe they fled to Ottoman Empire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liever_Turks_dan_Paaps

The phrase "Liever Turks dan Paaps" was coined as a way to express that life under the Ottoman Sultan would have been more desirable than life under the King of Spain

Furthermore, various religious refugees, such as the Huguenots, some Anglicans, Quakers, Anabaptists or even Jesuits or Capuchins were able to find refuge at Constantinople and in the Ottoman Empire,[7] where they were given right of residence and worship.[8]