It’s interesting that a lot of people in Turkey wish that Ottomans had done what you say their purpose was, thinking that Turkification of these lands would hav

It’s interesting that a lot of people in Turkey wish that Ottomans had done what you say their purpose was, thinking that Turkification of these lands would have made Turkey better off, with more lands perhaps. Luckily, it’s not true. The idea expressed in your comment is quite popular in many circles, though. I had a Greek classmate in our intro Ancient Greek class confidently stating that the sound shift of the letter beta (roughly from a /b/ sound to /v/) happened because Ottomans didn’t let them speak their language! This shift actually occurred in Byzantine period (I think around 1100AD). Edit: Oops, I was way off, actually the change happened in the Koine Period, around 200BC (https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta#:~:text=Beta%20(uppercase%2Flowercase%20Β%20β,resemble%20each%20other%20a%20lot https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta#:~:text=Beta%20(upp....)