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pretty understandable why the ask is on anon lmao pls educate yourselves

girl..why are you making it seem like turkey hasn't done anything at all? although theyve been colonized, they were once colonizers themselves.

ottoman empire for example? or are you going to say that its "not real" too lol

1. We are not the Ottoman Empire. We are the Republic of Turkey. Ottomans were our ancestors, yes, yet we are not the same. Atatürk founded this country for a reason. We are not the same. We have our mistakes but we try our best to not become like our ancestors. At least that's what I do (Read this to learn our founder's instructions for the future Turkish youth).

2. Turkey did not colonize anywhere. The Ottoman Empire conquered a lot of places, they did not colonize like Europe did to America and Africa, if they did a lot of people in Eastern Europe would talk Turkish. We have common words, yes, it was the cultural exchange and other bad things that the Ottoman Empire did (such as Devşirme Sistemi, read this please, I genuinely think it's disgusting) But their doings were different, I can't support nor defend what the Ottoman Empire did back in the days.

3. If you're including the Ottoman Empire, we have to include many other countries, empires and civilizations who did bad things. I don't think it's a good idea to include those. If so then we should talk about Nazi Germany for example.