What it sees to me is the Ottomans played tribal groups in their empire off against each other. And suppressed the any and all entities that could provide balan

What it sees to me is the Ottomans played tribal groups in their empire off against each other. And suppressed the any and all entities that could provide balance against their power. Compare with Europe which never was unified and where tribal distinctions were slowly replaced with national and religious ones. The Ottoman Empire fell apart 100 years ago. After which the French and the British tried to colonize it and when that didn't work they just drew lines on a map and installed a tribal chief from a weaker tribe as king. Which is to say this mess has a deep history that has it's roots in the Muslim conquests, the Mongol conquests, and the Ottoman Conquests. Followed by the dissolution of the Ottoman empire and ham handed foreign meddling since.