Non-Muslims who lived in the Ottoman Empire were called Dhimmi, or second-class citizens. They lacked a number of fundamental rights such as freedom of movement, freedom of settlement, access to all occupations, and additional taxation because they were Non-Muslim. Each Dhimmi group, like the Armenians, Greeks, Jews, and so forth were organized into Millets which were community representative groups. Each Millet would report to a centralized Millet representative in Istanbul who would have direct dealing with the Imperial Palace. This would allow the Millets to air their grievances, but was more often used as a method to control the Millets and make them less resistive to Ottoman Occupation.
Admittedly, life under the Ottomans was far superior to most contemporaneous Empires. Spain was by far a more religiously and culturally intolerant place during this period as were France and England.
As for the Ottomans not committing a genocide, this is blatantly incorrect. The transition between the Ottoman Empire and Turkey resulted in the Armenian Genocide (around 1.8 million killed) and the Greco-Turkish Population Swaps. Many Greeks in the Aegean cities like Smyrna (now Turkish Izmir) died en route to modern Greece and many Turks from the Peleponnesus (southern Greece) died en route to Turkey.
Finally, the Ottomans' most egregious crime was the policy of devshirme, where Christian families in the Balkans region had to submit to Ottoman soldiers stealing their children to bring to them to Istanbul where they would have no contact with their parents for years and be trained to be the elite Janissary Core and be converted to Islam. No Muslim was even allowed to join the Janissaries, because the devshirme system was so effective in producing recruits loyal only to the Emperor because they feared him.
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The Ottoman Empire was populated by the
Yes, Turkish people were in the Ottoman empire.
Turkish people are founders of the Ottoman Empire.
Osman I is attributed to finding The Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire had 29 provinces.
The Ottoman Empire was populated by the
The Ottoman Empire was a nation.
Yes, Turkish people were in the Ottoman empire.
The Arabian Empire was primarily Muslim, as was the Ottoman Empire.
Turkish people are founders of the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire had four capitals.
Osman I is attributed to finding The Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire had 29 provinces.
He effected the Empire by extending the Ottoman Empire towards the end of the Byzantine Empire .
No religion "inspired" the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire had Sunni Islam as its State Religion, but it was not a view or tenet of Islam to create an Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire was not "renamed". The Ottoman Empire became Turkey after Mustafa Kemal led the Ottoman military to overthrow the government and declare a new country in 1923.
AnswerThe Turks were the rulers of the Ottoman Empire.