>>17845266The Seljuk Empire was a regional power, and the Ottoman Empire, which wasn't a Turkic state, was a multicultural, Mediterranean Caliphate governed by Muslim Rumelian elites, who were South Slavs, Albanians, Greeks, and even Aromanians, in this particular order. You keep forgetting some of us studied Ottoman history for several years, and I hope I don't have to remind you of the fact that your people were the bottom strata in that empire, and that Ottoman Turkish was 88% non-Turkish vocabulary-wise in the majority of the primary sources.