Turkey Vs Ottoman Empire

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Turkey’s history stretches back at least 40,000 years. The Ottoman Empire was one of the enduring and extensive Empires of the history. Islam and Islamic organizations were tolerating the Ottoman Empire. It spread over the Eastern Mediterranean from the Byzantine Empire. During Suleiman the Magnificent (5120-66) ruling it was at its height, at that time it increased and took over the Balkans, Hungary, and borders of Vienna. The Empire started to weaken after it’s conquer at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 and it started to lose its navy. That was the begging of its weakening after 400 years of power in World War I. Modern Turkey has inherited secularism from the Islamic Ottoman Empire. The government came out with a plan to banish and disseminate

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