I don’t get why people here root for erdogan while they call the gulf countries traitors even though he is also in bed with Israel and the west the same with their Pakistani government who is friend with China and the west they act as if they care about Muslims but not in China since that is their Allie.
Now, you know Erdogan aspired to be the leader the of the Muslim World. He was into Muslim Brotherhood with Qatar and Mursi's Egypt. Then Arab spring started, he saw an opportunity in Syria. He thought that he can replace Assad with a leader whom would be close to his ideology.
From the Gulfies perspective this MB movement posses great danger to themselves as most of the gulf countries are monarchies. So, Gulfies acted against MB, Mursi brought down, MB crushed. Still at that point we had good relations with Gulf countries as Gulf countries thought Erdogan would come to his senses. But Erdogan still continued with his MB ideology. Turned Egypt in to a hostile state and endless criticized Gulfies. Then Gulfies started to act against Turkey's interests.
So, relations with Gulfies are at all time low.
About Israel, i wouldn't say Turkey is in bed with Israel. Prior to Erdogan Israeli Pilots would train in Turkey, We would buy military equipment and know how from Israel. Relations with Israel were excellent.
Then;
- "One Minute" incident in Davos Economic Forum
- "Mavi marmara" incident
- And endless criticize from Erdogan to Israel brought Turkey-Israel relations to all time low.
Yes, we have not cut our diplomatic relations and trade with Israel. However Turkey is not cooperating with Israel on political and military matters.
We could have achieved much with Israel, for example in the Eastern Mediterranean issues. But Erdogan bashed Israel so he could get credit Arabs.
Our relation with the West also deteriorated much, you know there is a military embargo on Turkey from European States and from US to an extent. US supporting YPG. US supporting Gülenists, Europeans supporting Greek Cyprus against Turkey etc..
But none of these were Gulfies fault, all the fault lies within Erdogan.
I said Persian was used in Selims court. I didn't say the reason for it was because he knew Persian.
All Turkic empires except for the Turko-Mongol ones have used Persian as their official and court language at some point. Even the Mughals in India. And you cant compare Latin, Greek etc with Persian. The Ottomans spoke Persian because Persian and Turkish was the languages they grew up with, and the language of their Seljuk forefathers.
The official and court language of the Seljuks were Persian. The Seljuks built the sultanate of Rum in Anatolia, the official and court language of the sultanate was Persian. When the Seljuks fell, the Sultanate was succeeded by the Beyliks, They were the noblemen of the Sultanate. Obviously they would continue to use Persian as the language of politics and administration.
The Ottomans were only a tribe from these Beys, it is only natural that Persian would remain the language of the court and administration in the early ages of the Ottoman Empire. For instance, when Sultan Murad conquered land, the other Beys would congratulate him by writing him letters in Persian. Ottoman Sultans grew up speaking both Turkish and Persian, their fathers spoke Persian, Their grandfathers spoke Persian and lived in Persia during the Seljuk Empire. Why do you think all Ottoman Sultans admired and adored Persia, Persian culture and poetry so much? It is because that was the land, language and culture of their Seljuk forefathers. The rivalry only started after Shah Ismail converted Persia to Shiism.
I'm not going to go into detail, but there is a reason why they also speak Persian in every Turkish speaking country except for Turkey. And the only reason they don't speak Persian today in Turkey is because it was replaced in the school system after the revolution. If you didn't know Persian, you were considered uneducated.
It's Devlet-i Aliyye-i-Osmaniyye not Muhamdediyye, and it's not in Arabic. The words are but the way the sentence is constructed is in Persian and its using Persian alphabet not Arabic.. Arabic uses Al in front of subjects and adjectives. Persian uses e/i.
There are lots of mistakes, in your arguments. For example these Beyliks were basically Turkic warriors from Central Asia, Seljuks placed them near to Roman Frontier as they were still nomadic warriors that were hard to control. Early Beyliks still had tengristic elements not fully converted to Islam and talked purely Turkic.
Anyways, I don't want to argue about my history with foreigners all day where i spend my time to refute claims one by one.
Take care.