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Up till about 100 years ago, most of today's Arabic speaking areas were at least nominally under Turkish suzeranity, Turkey also was the centre of the Islamic w
by billfruit 8y ago
Up till about 100 years ago, most of today's Arabic speaking areas were at least nominally under Turkish suzeranity, Turkey also was the centre of the Islamic world for so long, I wonder if the Turks did not try to replace Arabic with Turkish?
- eudora 8y agoI believe they were fairly light handed in that regard, and respected the cultural independence of their people. Grain of salt though, vague memory.