Yeah, the Balkans were a black hole for the Ottoman empire’s resources for pretty much its entire existence. The middle east on the other hand, if they had held on to it they would be a superpower today. The British already back before WW1 were panicking over a planned railway line, a joint German-Ottoman project that would go all the way from Berlin to Baghdad.
The ottoman empire could have becomed something good as an muslin euro-asian superpower to make the westerners stay away from the middle east, but the last two ottoman braincells melted during ww1, they refused to become something new. They did the genocide with the armenians that was completelly based on hatred, and their childish desire to fuck over greece almost cost turkey the entire anatolian coast. God bless Attaturk, he was able of bringing an rotting dead nation back at its feet again.
Yeah, the Balkans were a black hole for the Ottoman empire’s resources for pretty much its entire existence. The middle east on the other hand, if they had held on to it they would be a superpower today. The British already back before WW1 were panicking over a planned railway line, a joint German-Ottoman project that would go all the way from Berlin to Baghdad.
The ottoman empire could have becomed something good as an muslin euro-asian superpower to make the westerners stay away from the middle east, but the last two ottoman braincells melted during ww1, they refused to become something new. They did the genocide with the armenians that was completelly based on hatred, and their childish desire to fuck over greece almost cost turkey the entire anatolian coast. God bless Attaturk, he was able of bringing an rotting dead nation back at its feet again.