The secret desire of EVERY Turk is to restore the Ottoman Empire. Erdogan has them believing now that it is possible.
Killing Spree in Turkey due to Religious Intolerance.
[A more clear headline.]
The Ottomans were moderates. This is more like the massacre of Armenian Christians by Young Turks.
But even as moderates, the Ottomans were monsters who ravaged the Balkans for centuries. They had an easy time conquering muslim nations, but the Balkan Christian spirit was impossible to break. Only through Tito’s loose refugee policy and then the ‘oppressed’ people of Kosovo tricking fellow Christians into backstabbing them did the muslims win any ground there.