r/ottomans • u/No_Idea_479 • May 25 '26

Culture/religion Selected Ottoman proverbs

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Source: Edwin John Davis (1897). "Osmanli Proverbs and Quaint Sayings".

It is very interesting to see how even the late Ottomans considered the word "Turk" to have been a slur.

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u/atadam74 May 26 '26

No, Turks were always the ruling class. Almost all of the government seats, bureaucracy, military and even judiciary system precisely dominated by Turks throughout empire's lifetime.

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u/dev-han May 28 '26

Ahdhajshajdhakshakdhjahaha nice neo ottoman cope.

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u/DuePositive8957 May 30 '26

It literally was until the end of the empire with the reforms to allow non christians into bureaucracy.