Ansu fati
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I have already explained what i meant previously to the guy from tunisia you can go back and read it probably you will understand what i wanted to say and i see you use some terms like bashi bazouok you probably don’t know the whole story about them if you want to learn more ask me i will tell you everything you need to knowActually it’s you who is spreading BS about the Arabs. We know the ottoman loss of the balkans have nothing to do with Arabs and all the massacres that happened to you is because you killed the Christian civilians by your bashi bazouk militias
Actually to say that christians were killed and that’s why christians used this as justification to wipe out muslims in balkan is dangerous whitewashing because jews can say the same thing to justify their actions against palestinians (and golan heights) this kind of thinking can be misused by everyone because every nation at some point in their history suffered from someone/other nation/group does it mean that everyone can do a genocide against specific group and say that it was a revenge for something that happened 5+ centuries ago
I will tell you in short about bashi bozouk and similar “structures” since the 1700 onwards ottoman empire started declinig wars were lost and since the state was too big de facto there was a decentralization so many pashas who governed specific region in balkan became disloyal and wanted to rule independently but of course they knew their limits that sultan can send thousands of troops to end them so they adopted a new practice: DOUBLE TAXES one for the sultan and for them and you can quess the rest people didn’t had money so bashi bozouk indeed did various crimes but what is important to know is that bashi bozouk were under the control of the pashas not under istanbul in history this is written as ottoman oppression but actually the state wasn’t in position to dismantle them since they already lost big in wars against russia and other europeans so we are talking about uncontrollable paramilitary structures that did bad things but this is exclusively attributed to turks and we know the reason for it: complete demonization of turks
I hope now you and others can see from different angle and widen your view about ottoman history
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