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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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"
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No other state possesses the military power of the Ottomans; the Ottomans have powerful artillery and a great maritime power; the aims of the Ottoman Sultan are 'tedbîr-i 'imâret-i rûy-i zemîn' to make the face of the world to flourish, to destroy the foes of the true Faith, and to uphold the Holy Law.
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...'May I ask you a rather personal question?' 'Certainly' I said.
"Does it trouble you," he inquired, "to make your living by disrupting the lives of others?"
"We just value," I replied. "We do not decide whether to buy or to sell, or indeed what happens to a company after we have values it."
He nodded; he lit a cigarette and took a sip from his glass of wine. Then he asked, "Have you heard of the janissaries?"
"No" I said. "They were Christian boys," he explained, "captured by the Ottomans and trained to be soldiers in a Muslim army, at that time the greatest army in the world. They were ferocious and utterly loyal: they had fought to erase their own civilizations, so they had nothing else to turn to."
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Eğer Türkler uzaktaki bir kötülük odağından ibaret olsalardı Avrupalıların kalbinde dinsiz Çinlilerin yarattığı korkudan daha f azla bir korku yaratamazlardı.
Onlar hakkında düşünmeyi bile bu kadar korkunç yapan şey, Türk güçlerinin Avrupa'nın kapılarını yumruklamakta olmasıydı. Sultan Osman tarafından kurulan ve Ingilizce'de Ottomans olarak bilinen en başarılı Türk kabilesi I453'te Konstantinapolis fethetti. Böylece bir zamanlar Roma imparatorluğumun başkenti olan ve ondan sonra da bin yıldan daha uzun bir süre boyunca Bizans imparatorluğu'nun başkentliğini yapan bir Hıristiyan kentinin sahipliğini elde etmiş oldu. Bu fetih Türkleri tüm insanlık
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As soon as the 1559 Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis ended hostilities between France and the Hapsburgs, Phillip II, who had taken the thrones of Spain and Naples on the abdication of his father, Charles V, in 1555, immediately organized a major naval expedition against the corsair base at the island of Jerba, off the coast of Tunisia. The Hapsburgs conquered the island, but in 1560 the Ottoman fleet under Piyale Pasha defeated the Hapsburg fleet there. In 1565, the Ottomans attempted to conquer Malta, which had become the base of the Knights of St. John after Sulayman drove them from Rhodes. The knights, under their grand master Jean Parisot de la Valette, won renown for the epic defense. The Ottomans withdrew before a relief force arrived.
We must point out here that the Western and Eastern enemies of the Ottomans tried to establish contacts with one another. In pursuance of their designs upon the Ottomans, Timur sent letters to the French court, Uzun Hassan made an alliance with Venice, and the Safavids sent embassies to the Hapsburg of Germany and Spain. The Ottomans took great care to follow a policy of alternate war and peace in order to avoid having to fight simultaneous wars on two fronts. But during the long war against the Hapsburgs in the years of 1593-1606, Shah Abbas attack in Azerbaijan forced the Ottomans to fight on two fronts at the same time with disastrous consequences.
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