AlpErTunga
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Ottoman was Islamic not Turkish nationalist anyway.
There were not any "national" state with perception of today during that period of history, we mentioned, a different explanation will be anachronical mistake sir. If we would assume all Ottoman people as "Turks" and view their culture behind nationalist glasses; we would make a logical mistake ofcourse. But on the other hand, we have to see the Turkish identity of the state while we are talking about it.
According to your point of view; no nation had an imperial state before 18th century. But they had; and one of them was Ottoman Empire of the Turks. Ottoman Empire was founded and ruled by the same Turkish dynasty during her full life. In addition; it is true that Europe call all Muslim people as "the Turks" sometimes and "the Arabs" othertimes. This is the result of their generalization understanding like "we and others", "whites and blacks", "True Romans, Romans and barbarians". And all confusion about this topic is the result of that we made our history and they wrote almost all of it, I think. They named our past and we read it, unfortunately.
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