Kambojaric
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Kosovo and Nikopolis happened some 60 years before the attack on Constantinople and Varna 9 years earlier but that battle only managed to knock out a response from the Hungarian Kingdom,not the West.Let's not forget that even the Ottoman Empire had its troubles at the beginning of the 15th century following its defeat at Ankara at the hand of Timur but recovered some 40 years later.
No help arrived from westerners because they were envolved in their petty wars and arguements not because they were crippled military by the ottomans earlier.Remember that in the beginning of the 16th century while ottomans were dismantling one of the last powerful bulwarks of Christendom in Central/Eastern Europe,the Hungarian kingdom,the westerners were still busy fighting between themselves in the Italian Wars.Western Europe or as a fact whole Europe just wasn't united under a Christian banner like so many like to believe nowadays,there were petty kings,dukes,counts who constantly fought amongst themselves .
True the list of reasons why Constantinople fell to the Ottomans would be a long one indeed with one definitely being that Europe was in total discord at the time and hence was not in a condition to send much assistance to the Byzantines. However what I was trying to point out and I guess failed to show in my previous post was that following the before mentioned battles the Ottomans had established themselves as a power not only in Anatolia but also the Balkans thus encircling Constantinople on all sides and preventing closer potential allies like Bulgaria and Serbia from assisting the Byzantines.
well ok,but the city today is filled with pilsner boards and all grocery shops serve alcohol.
Nothing suggests that it has remained a divine conquest forget about being Islamic.
The Serbs were Vassals of the sultan,what is little Kosovo going to do?
The talk here is about the Vatican,that would make it a crusade.
But it is not.
That is the modern Turks own choice. The fact remains that in whichever part of Istanbul you go, you are more than likely to see a minaret of a mosque and hear the azan five times a day. As far as alcohol consumption is concerned, it has and is consumed in pretty much every Muslim state whether it be in open or behind the curtain. It doesnt change the fact that Istanbul is a city in which most people identify themselves as Muslims within a secular muslim majority country. That is enough for Muslims from other countries not to consider the city "lost" or less holy in some way.
Im not sure I understand the second part of your post about Kosovo and the Vatican?
Because the head of Turkish football federation is a retard who don't know nothing about football but just a son of a rich businessman who is also close to erdoğan and AKP. Now they had to beg Terim to coach galatasaray and National team at the same time.
Shame really. Lets hope the old glory days of the Turkish national team return soon. Was a big fan of Hakan Sukur in my early teens.