Defending India and the empire thus also meant a strong diplomatic and naval British presence in the Near East where Russia or France, together or separately, might try to break up the Ottoman Empire and share out its provinces. Russia’s claim to protect the Ottomans’ Christian subjects, their forward base in the Caucasus, where they maintained a large army, and the tsars’ longstanding ambition to rule Constantinople (Tsargrad) and master the Straits, were a source of constant unease. Neither did the British forget Napoleon’s Egyptian invasion: all French interest in Egypt was viewed with suspicion.
Ottomans
Türklerin anavatanı, padişahın onları yolladığı yerdi, aslında bütün bu topraklar padişahın mülküydü, yasal anlamda Türklere ait değildi. Türklerin başka bir vatanı, üzerinde herhangi bir hak iddia edebilecekleri bir yurtları olmadığı gibi, böyle bir yurda sahip olma hakları da yoktu.
The first direct relations between the Indian Muslims and the Ottomans were established in the late fifteenth century.
Indian Muslims and the Ottomans (1877-1914)
A Study of Indo-Muslim Attitudes to Pan-İslamism ana Turkey
(Azmi ÖZCAN PhD Thesis, London Oct 1990)
Çaldıran Savaşı ile Safevi Yayılmacılığının Durması
The defeat at Chaldiran ended the first phase of Safavid history. Geographically, the Safavids lost only the province of Diyar Bakr, but the momentum of expansion was gone. Ismail, who had been a charismatic, aggressive leader, became passive. He never led his troops in battle again. Of the last ten years of his reign, there is little to report. The establishment phase of the Safavid Empire ended with a Qizilbash confederation ruling Azerbaijan, Iraq, western Iran, and Khurasan. It confronted the Ottomans in the west and Uzbeks in the east and was committed to Shii Islam as the religion of the general population.
Unlike earlier wars in Europe, the Long War produced no profit. The jalali disorders disrupted the economy of much of Anatolia. The timar army cost the central treasury almost nothing in cash; the central army and the sekban required cash payment, but the dwindling number of sipahis and the need for the larger armies that only the sekban could provide forced the Ottomans to alter the provincial financial, administrative, and military structure. They transferred much of the provincial revenue from timar holders to tax farmers and used the revenue to support sekban infantry rather than sipahi cavalry. This policy reflected not the military
obsolescence of the sipahis but their dwindling numbers, the need for
larger armies, and the interests of the qapiqullar.
The Ottomans: “Hold my beer”
“İmparatorluk eleştirileri iki grupta toplanır:
• Birincisi, imparatorluklar iyi işlemez. Uzun vadede boyunduruk altına alınmış çok sayıda milleti etkili bir şekilde yönetmek mümkün değildir.”
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Senin İçin Yendik Avrupa - Silistre - 1854
Yukarıda, söz konusu madalyanın ön yüzünde (solda), üç sıra defne çelengi içerisinde Abdülmecid'in bir portresi ve çevresinde "Abdul - Medjid Khan - Empereur Des Ottomans" Türkçesi "Abdülmecid Han, Osmanlıların Padişahı" yazıyordu. Arka yüzdeyse (sağda), kalenin önünde bir elinde kama, bir
elinde gürz tutan bir kadın, sol yanında bir cami ve çevresinde "Europe lls Ont Vaıncu Pour Toı - Silistrie- 1854" Türkçesi: (Rusları Silistre'de) "Senin İçin Yendik Avrupa - Silistre - 1854"
yazıları yer alıyordu
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Social Disabilities versus the Claim of Nationality Privileges
rtime American Ambassador to Turkey, Henry Morgenthau, offered the following confirmatory observation in this regard. The so-called privileges were not due to "a spirit of tolerance, but merely because they [the Ottomans] looked upon the Christian nations as unclean and, therefore, unfit to have any contact...the 'millets' [were] regarded as vermin and therefore disqualified for membership in the Ottoman State." [27]
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27. Henry Morgenthau, Ambassador Morgenthau's Story (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1918), p. 280.
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At Lepanto the Ottomans now had a secure forward base on the edge of the Ionian Sea from which to conduct naval operations. During this tense time, Leonardo da Vinci arrived in the city to offer his services as a military engineer. He came with a head full of extraordinary schemes for the city’s defence – a diving suit of pig’s leather with bamboo pipes for air tubes, sketches for submarines . Whatever conversations took place came to nothing. (Two years later he was drawing up proposals to put to Sultan Bayezit for a single-span bridge across the Golden Horn.)
