It is amazing how you guys fall for Eric Dayi's tricks time and time again...
ED's main mission in life is to maintain and spread "hatred" between Turks and Greeks, and TCs and GCs,to justify his ideal,the PARTITION of Cyprus...
He does it well,using personal insults to get under people's skins,then sits back and laughs with a self-satisfied smirk, saying "You see,you hate us Turks/TCs,how can we live together?????"...
People who think Ottomans=Turks are plainly mistaken. The Ottomans,especially the Sultans and their ruling elite had very little Turkish in them. In fact Turks were one of the most oppressed minorities in the Ottoman empire...
It is undeniable though that the Ottoman empire was less original and creative than imitative and all absorbing. Their real skill was military. They simply conquered as much other people's land as they could,and ruled for the sake of ruling,using the taxation carrot to create as many local and loyal collaborators as possible. Mimar Sinan was probably the only architect in the whole Ottoman time who tried to improve on what he found,with some success...The biggest weapon in the Ottoman's armoury,religion,was also their biggest handicap...Their refusal,for centuries, to embrace any scientific advances because it was the invention of "kafirs" or infidels was the primary reason of their downfall. Islam simply tied their hands so badly,eventually they were fighting without arms!
The Republic of Turkey,founded by Kemal Ataturk,is the first and last country we can call Turkish in the modern sense. People must make the effort to differentiate between the Ottomans and the Turks,or they will be accused of using history maliciously and opportunistically to attack the entire Turkish nation...
And those who are interested in Turkish literature,I recommend the works of Nazim Hikmet, Aziz Nesin, Yashar Kemal (who is of Kurdish origin but writes in Turkish),Fakir Baykurt,and of course,Orhan Pamuk...Most of the works of Nazim Hikmet,Aziz Nesin and Yashar Kemal have been translated into Greek...