A.A. Khan
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I don't care about being Muslim or Christian but we should've definitely used a better Turkification system, we could've at least kept Western Thrace and large parts of Bulgaria today. The same goes for the Middle East as well.
A shame Ottomans didn't care about Turkification back then and not only that they also kicked out & exiled Shia and Alevite Turks out of Eastern Anatolia instead invited Kurdish clans thus today Eastern Turkey today is majority Kurdish and we have a separatist problem.
You forgot to mention how Shia Safavid ruler Tahmasp started a scorched earth policy against Sunni region in the northwest. Kurds suffered the most. Safavids Tahmasp and Shah Abbas both displaced, massacred Kurds in millions.
Google Massacre of Ganja [and Battle of Dimdim] where Shah Abbas after capture manslaughtered the whole village of Ganja incl. children. Safavids followed Russians displacing and destroying KurdishSunnis all over their territory. To this day a community of Kurds live in Nishapur and Khorasan on the border of Afghanistan-Turkmenistan, they were pushed about thousands of miles away from their lands. If Ottomans had not defeated Safavids there would not have been a Kurdistan in Syria or Iraq.
Alevis are different in practices and beliefs from Irani, Azeri Shia. The credit goes to the Turks and Ottomans. If not for Ottomans Iranian Mullahs would've influenced Alevis to give up their traditional practices. Alevis are around 10-15 million population. They continue to follow their practices originating from 16th century. Revering Shah Ismail Safavi [the ruler who converted Iran to Shiism in 1500s], there place of worship called Cem. They resemble Ismailis a lot. They can keep musical instruments in their praying area. Observe certain Taqiyyah. Alevis are actually the successors of the Shia religion introduced in Iran. Over time Arab and African Shia clergy changed religious practices.