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Many people are not awared the fact that (in general) Turks and Arabs do not like each others. I found this when I was traveling Germany 10 years ago.
I was eating in one Turkish restaurant in Munich, so I was talking nicely with boss of the restaurant, he was stunned that I thought that Turks are friends to Arabs, he was SHOCKED LOL.
I asked him how come do you dislike each others?
He said to me it goes deep into history.
THEN I DO MY RESEARCH ABOUT THIS when I came back to Croatia, I wrote a seminar about this on my University of History, and I suggested one theory and idea to my professor why Arabs hated and hate Turks, in general, my professor was (I have to say) shocked in positive way, because he never thought of this in this way, so my theory is this (and this are facts):
1. To Ottoman Empire it was always Empire primary thing and Islam was secondary thing.
2. Ottomans used Islamization in same fashion as Roman Empire used ROMANIZATION, means; they used it to make BETTER CITIZENS of Empire. Now this doesn't mean Ottomans didn't care for Islam, they cared very much, but you get the point.
3. Ottomans could used Islamization on non-muslim population very well to make better citizens of Empire, but they couldn't used it on Arabs for obvious reason , Arabs were muslims long before Turks.
4. So what happened? Turks were killing Arabs like flies in Ottoman Empire whenever they would notice some rebellion, so it's not wonder Arabs joined English and French AGAINST Ottoman Empire in World War 1.
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