They didn't force conversions to their religion, they didn't exploit the wealth of their subjugates the same way Europeans did, and they even attempted to helped the Irish. Yet they are still seen as a bane to humanity by Balkans, Levant, and Western Europeans. Why is that?
They are Turks.
That's enough reason to hate them.
Nothing.
They were benevolent heirs of the Roman Empire.
Enlightened and cultured civilization.
Why are you directing your attacks at Europeans when the main hatred against Ottomans in the modern era comes from Sunni Arabs seething about having to bow to a Turkish caliphate?
Anyway, they weren’t brutal (as the Arab caliphates) but their leadership appeared decadent and out of touch.
I don't know castrating 5 year olds and raping them is a good way to make people hate you
way past its prime when it reached its "greatest extent". The Ottomans peaked early (Suleyman's reign). After Malta the writing was on the wall. They could have still kept their Middle Eastern possessions along with the caliphate after WWI but eternal Anglo had other plans.
Balkan Nationalism mostly. For the time they weren't bad to their subjects and by that I mean they at least let them practice their religion without coercing their religion on them. But by the 19th and 20th century the Ottoman Empire was way past its age and was really backwards in everything.
They literally stole male children from their Christian subjects and raised them as islamic slaves.
I find it interesting how powerful janissaries became in Ottoman society at several points.
They become janissary and that the reason why ottoman fell too cause at one point many ottoman sultan become puppet of janissary. Christian killed Muslim empire from within.
They were castrated in order to stop them from fricking muslimas
>castrated
that's the Unsullied from GoT and black eunuchs guarding the harem. Janissaries were never castrated. They were circumcized at the age of 7-9 though. Turks still do late circumcision for some reason, usually after first grade. Maybe it has to do with Janissary culture.
Janissaries weren't castrated, the people who were castrated were sex slaves or to-be bureaucrats.
>slaves
do these dudes look chained and whipped to you? They controlled the empire for over 2 centuries. Turks were often jealous of their power and privilege, even noble ones like the Sipahis. Some Turkish speakers today even argue that they were never considered slaves to begin with. Something to do with the words "kul" and "küle" being different. At any rate, they were sworn to the Porte (the dynasty) and had no qualms about getting rid of a couple of sultans who did not comply with their demands.
Lmao jannisarries were elites troops. These are some weird balkanoid delusionals. They even had their own special and exclusive religion which was some weird shia cult. Everyone else in the ottoman empire had to conform for hanafi sunnism
Yeah I don't know if that justifies abducting them from their families or all of those who were castrated and/or raped...
>all of those who were castrated
They weren't castrated. If you're goi g to whine abkut something than at least don't lie about it. It's hard to take you seriously
that's Peruvian Mestizo mutt who got his welfare application rejected in Sweden and can't stop seething about it 24/7 what do you expect from him?
I just pointed that out you moronic subhuman. Jesus Christ, I'm talking about the NON-JANISSARY slaves who were castrated. Frick off back to the Middle East or something.
Black did you even read my reply? I know what they were, and how they fell from grace.
Search Balkangreuel by Gottfried Sieben and you'll know what was so bad about them
Nothing except they weren't white and Christian. Never forget that this a White world and you just live in it.
how about the massive depopulation, economic and technological stagnation and slavery?
According to modern standards?
They practiced slavery.
>and they even attempted to helped the Irish
this
Imagine naming your "empire" after a piece of furniture
>impose heavy burden on local religions to the point of changing local customs (pork became more popular in greece and people turned towards the mountain to escape religious taxes and persecution)
>kidnap and train kids to become your elite soldiers
>let algerian and tunisian "protectorates" kidnap and resell thousand of christian slaves
>prevent eastern europe from properly integrating Europe until the 20th century
But if that wasn't bad enough, the ottoman empire was just in general not very interesting. It didn't try to convert the whole world to islam, it didn't have a unique and interesting ideology, it didn't progress the middle east, it was just an empire, a shitty one too.
They ruthlessly pillaged the lands they conquered, slaughtering the men, selling the women and children into slavery, and then ripped the wealth and sent back to the Sultan. Is that bad enough?