So what if the Ottomans shaped the modern world?

Pepe Escobar- Erdogan is mesmerized by Caliph Selim but, unlike Machiavelli, he doesn't fear him; he wants to emulate him

Erdogan is mesmerized by Caliph Selim but, unlike Machiavelli, he doesn’t fear him; he wants to emulate him

Once upon a time in Anatolia, in the late 13th century a Turkic principality – one of many shaped in the wake of the Mongol invasion of the 1240s – consigned the Seljuk Turks to the past and emerged as the Ottoman emirate. It was named after its founder, Osman I.

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