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While I agree that the Ottoman Empire is an important component of world history, and maybe even Biblical prophecy, the article deals with a bunch of generalities. To start with, I wouldn’t call it a “600-year caliphate.” The Ottoman Empire did get started in 1299, with the reign of Osman, but for the first two hundred years, the Mamelukes were the strongest Islamic state this side of Central Asia, and the Mamelukes kept a puppet Abbasid caliph in Cairo. Also, most of the territories mentioned didn’t come under Ottoman rule until long after 1299. Constantinople was famously captured in 1453, for instance; a few years ago a Turkish language movie was made about that event, called “Fetih 1453.” As for the Holy Land, it was conquered in 1517, the same year that the Mamelukes were overthrown, so it was under Ottoman rule for 400 years and eleven months, counting until General Allenby’s World War I campaign. And while the sultans called themselves caliphs as early as 1362, Abdul Hamid II (1876-1909) was the first to make a big deal about it, and by then the empire had been in decline long enough to earn the nickname the Russians gave it, “the sick man of Europe.”