Originally posted by Risto the Great
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Ohh thanks RTG. I am just trying to explain the issues about Turkey because you know, there are a lot of misconception about us but neither of those are not that difficult to clarify. So, thats what i do.
You are right, when you try to communicate with someone or with some society, you shouldn't forget your past experience with them but also you should be fair by remembering the benefits and positive experiences as well as negative ones. The relation of two different society would be baseless and ungrounded if you don't take account of your past experiences, both good and bad.
Originally posted by TrueMacedonian
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Thanks TrueMacedonian, i am happy to be here and read your posts as well, i mean all the forum members.
Yes, you are right. The exception on religious conversion was the Janissary squad. I gotta remind you tough, whole army of the Empire wasn't consisted with only Janissary. The Janissary was only an infantry squad of the army. There was other type of squads too, which consists with the Muslim Turks. Also the reason for their conversation wasn't because they were going to fight vs Christians. Ottoman Empire also fought vs Muslim states for a long time too like Persian-Turk Safavid dynasty, Arab-Turk Mamluks and other Arab states.
As far as we see from the notes and guide books from Empire era, the decision makers of the Empire thought that the conversion of Janissary squad to Islam was a necessity to achieve the unity with the other squads of the army. They thought that if there would be religious difference between them, they would never think and act like one force. Also one more thing; They were thinking that a Christian would never fight to death for the Sultan and for his Empire. That was their conception at the medieval times. Ofc this conception has changed after the abolish of Janissary squad at 1830s. After that, the empire started to accept Christian citizens to the new army.
Originally posted by Spartan
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Neither TM nor me ever spoke like that, so don't try to pull us to your ground. What you wanna prove with this while we are discussing religious conversion issue? Dont forget, if Turkish regime would be bad as you think, then you would be in Mecca now, praying to Allah and your forum nick would be "Muhammad" instead of Spartan. You have a doubt on this???
I will tell you just one thing Spartan. Nothing in the world consists black and white, there are shades of gray as well. If you cant see the gray then you are just narrow-minded fool.
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