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I hope you realise that Turkey lives today thanks to Balkanites. Thanks to Balkanites Ottoman Empire was Ottoman Empire. So many Ottoman Pashas had origin from Balkans. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from Thessaloniki, Enver Paşa from Manastır with Gagauz origin (geneticically they are close to Balkanites), founder of first Turkish printing press İbrahim Müteferrika with Hungarian origin, Köprülü family with Albanian origin, Sokullu Mehmet Paşa with Bosniak origin. There are many muhajirs from Balkans in especially western Anatolia and Thrace. Actually these Turks are closer to Balkans than Asia.
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Names you point to are mostly from 16th century onwards, when Turks already rooted in Balkans. Actually those people didn't bring any contribution and even wreaked havoc with their inferior Balkanite ways.
When early Ottomans (Turkic people), who were a steppe folk pushed into far western Asia Minor by Mongols, they were actually warrior-shepherds far away from being up to crossing Bosphorus strait into Balkans.
Then, Latin people (Genoese), who were still controlling half of Constantinople, started to ferry Turks into Balkans especially after 1350's to counter Orthodoxes and to create a new third party in the region.
Then Turks did the rest with their swords and later with canons. We don't owe anything to anyone.
Genoa helped Turks to get into Balkans and Turks survived there thanks to their swords, not owing to any imaginary Balkan help.
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