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While other states rose and fell, the Ottoman Empire was seemingly in a continuous decline for centuries on end, it went through massive periods of huge political unrest, it lost the most profitable, developed and educated parts of the empire, and eventually collapsed after being defeated in the Great War. Could this trajectory have changed at some point?

With a PoD after the French Revolution, have the Ottoman Empire survive to the present day, have it be as powerful as possible, a liberal democratic polity(preferably still Ottoman, a monarchy that is, but if you can get a similar result with a Republic then all the better) with as much of the Balkans as possible in its grasp, or in its sphere of influence if not directly in its empire. Could the sick man of Europe be cured?
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