The Ottomans built the largest Muslim empire in the modern era.
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The Ottomans built the largestMuslim empire in the modern era.
The Ottoman Empire reached its
height under Suleiman the Magnificent
in the 1500s.
However, by the early 1900s, the Ottoman Empire had declined.The Ottomans lacked moderntechnology.
Europeans competed for land in theonce great empire.
World War I only worsened matters.The Ottomans had allied themselveswith the Central
Powers, Germanyand Austria-Hungary. The
Central Powerslost the war.
France and England took controlof some lands in the OttomanEmpire.
But some young Turkish nationalistsdecided it was time for a change.
They led a revolutionary movementagainst the authoritarian Sultan, Abdulhamid II.
The leader of the Young Turks, Mustafa Kemal, known as Ataturk orfather of the Turks, was a nationalistand the founder of modern Turkey.
The Young Turks established a constitutional government.
Under Ataturk’s leadership, they modernized and
westernizedTurkey. They encouraged secularism
and granted universal suffrage
(voting).
As first President of
Turkeyfrom 1923 until 1938,
Ataturkshaped
the modernnation of Turkey.
He gave the Turkish people
last namesand abolished the
Fez. He even replaced
Arabic script witha modified Latin
alphabet.
While many changes occurred thatbenefitted the Turkish people, Armenians (an ethnic group livingin the region) were massacred by thehundreds of thousands.
And the Ottoman Empire was no more.Yes, Turkey was a modern nation built on change.