Snake Featherston
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The Ottomans don't have the coastal springboard, the navy, or any real reason to do this.
Peter had a great deal of trouble doing so. This isn't a matter of a different firm's design, this is more equivalent to asking someone who makes cars to make tanks or more so.
Has anyone argued the Ottoman navy would be a pushover?
Why on Earth would change their seat to North Africa?
"Because we might eventually develop colonies thousands of miles away to the point they become profitable" sounds crazy WITH hindsight.
If they had no option, ie, Constantinople is taken.
Which is preposterous as a POD and would imply that the Empire as such is destroyed so any Ottoman colonialism in the West is a no-go.
If the Ottomans were to build a colonial empire it would more likley be in unexplored parts of Africa, India and Indonesia, and the Pacific. The Americas are just too far for any serious Ottoman colonial ambitions.
IOTL Courland had colonies in the America's (and Africa), and it was just as far away and orders of magnitude smaller, weaker and less wealthy.
Courland's "colonies" were more or less small outposts, not on par with the colonies of Britain or Spain.
Also Courland had generally freindly waters to go through while the Ottomans had some pissed-off Christians to deal with.
I'm not sure about Courland's colonies or how they compare to British or Spanish colonies at this point, but I am sure that this is overextension for an overextended empire.
Morocco is at the end of a longish supply line for the Ottomans, its next door to the Iberians. Bad idea.
Well, Courlands were smaller, but then this is all in the 1500's, before any large scale Colonization had started.
Britain and the Netherlands managed to hold major Imperial holdings thousands of miles away, having to rely almost exclusively on Naval transportation on the Open seas, the Ottomans on the other hand can send things along a land route or through the much calmer and closer Mediterranean.
Another thing too: wouldn't one of the Italian merchant cities with excellent relations with the Ottoman Empire actually try to help them gain access to the spice trade? Say, Venice could offer to help improve the Ottoman navy since that's pretty much the department where the Ottomans really need help modernizing before they could go on their Indian Ocean adventures. Another thing would be for the Ottomans and the Mughals to form a better military alliance.