The Ottoman Empire, why did Turkey dream of going back to the past?

Ottoman Empire

An empire established by the Turks by Ottoman I. The Turks first settled in the interior of Central Asia, and later moved to the Anatolian Peninsula in Asia Minor, where they flourished. At its peak, it reached three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, encompassing most of the territories and possessions of Southern Europe, the Balkan Peninsula, the Middle East and North Africa, reaching the Strait of Gibraltar in the west, the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf in the east, Austria and Slovenia in the north, and the south and present-day Northern Sudan and Yemen. After the destruction of the Eastern Roman Empire, the capital was set in Constantinople, renamed Istanbul, and considered itself the heir of the Eastern Roman Empire.

The Monarch Sultan of the Ottoman Empire regarded himself as the lord of the world, and he combined the traditions of the nomadic tribes, the artistic attainments of Persia, the political civilization of Byzantium, and the scientific culture of Arabia, inheriting the culture of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Culture of Islam, so that the Eastern and Western civilizations were united.

The Ottoman Empire was located at the crossroads of Eastern and Western civilizations and controlled the land lines of communication between Eastern and Western civilizations for six centuries. During its existence, islamization and modernization reforms were carried out more and more often, blurring the boundaries between Eastern and Western civilizations. The Ottoman Empire had a significant influence on Western civilization, and its architect Sinan remains to this day.



In the 16th century, during the reign of Suleiman the Great, it was at its peak, and its territory reached its peak in the 17th century. Under barbarossa Herradin, his navy controlled the Mediterranean.

The Ottoman Empire was the only Islamic power that could challenge the rising European states from the 15th to the 19th centuries, but the Ottoman Empire was unable to withstand the onslaught of modernized European countries, and declined in the early 19th century, and finally lost to the Allies in World War I, and the Ottoman Empire was divided. Mustafa Kemal then led an uprising to repel the European powers and establish the Republic of Turkey, bringing the Ottoman Empire to an end