I thought you guys said the Ottomans were bad? This guy seems pretty cool.
>Was going to send £10,000 pounds to the Irish during their famine but the British didn't want him donating more than Queen Victoria so he only sent 1,000
>Decriminalized homosexuality
>Allowed non-Muslims to join the Ottoman military
>Abolished a tax plan that imposed higher tariffs on non-Muslims
>Planned to end the slave trade
>>3370752
Anon, all of those are objectively bad things.
>>3370767
subjectively*
And the popular opinion would be those are good things, minus homosexuality.
>>3370752
>I thought you guys said the Ottomans were bad?
That's mostly meming. Tanzimat reforms were good shit. Abdulhamid II ruined any hope of interfaith Ottoman identity though.