I would never talk bad of Ottomans because they are my forefathers, no Ottomans no Turkey its that simple, but truth be truth,
Good of you
Ottomans was developed for 1500s standarts but they missed the developement later.
It is not like that, Ottomans just entered bad stuations after 1800 because of internal and external issues. I think it was destiny of Ottomans, Sultans coldn't stop our falling...
You cant call a religious school primary education since they didnt learned anything else than religion there.
Are you sure that ? so how big writer, poet, statesman was growing like M.Akif Ersoy etc.
No thats wrong, literacy rate was never so high like today.
Our Elders were know old alphabet who as i know and they didn't know new alphabet. So if you ask your elders if they are still alive
) they will tell you everybody was know our old alphabet.
Even in Second Abdulhamid times Ottoman was had 9000 modern schools for education, you can see just 95 schools in 1923, later times it groves but long time too much people didn't educated in Turkey especially in Kurdish area.
Almost nobody could efford higher education that time, education was expensive.
That time was hard to educate because peoples was working on their job and less of people was educating theirself, it is clear.
Also not true, what exsactly did the Ottomans invented if i may ask? Even the cannon of Ottomans at the siege of Constantinople was European made...
these cannon's barrel's ballistic calculate made by Fatih Sultan Mehmet also he contributed lots of different calculate for these cannons, also you must know that howitzer used first time in a battle by Sultan Mehmet.
Turks invented "yılan kavi" rifle firing system, which was increasing fire rate of rifle, also Rifling was using by Turks before europe etc.
I was read a book about it, if i remember i'll give you book name.