AHC Ottoman Balkan rump state

Try to create a scenario where the Ottomans lose most of their holdings in the Middle East, and the majority of their remaining territory be located in the Balkan peninsula. Bonus points for maintaining this situation for 50+ years.
 
If the Ottomans lose most of Anatolia, then they can't possibly hold much of Europe unless there is a very, very early POD when the Balkan's embrace Islam or a massive emigration of Turks from Anatolia.

Even then, I'm not sure that Balkan muslims were any happier being Ottoman subjects than Balkan Christians. See the long history of Albania and Bosniak rebellions.

Bereft of their fiscal and demographic base, there is no way Turks hold the Balkans.
 
Only way I see that happening is if the capital had sometime/somehow moved to the Balkans for some reason.
 
Only way I see that happening is if the capital had sometime/somehow moved to the Balkans for some reason.
The Ottoman Empire established a Balkan capital in 1363, and maintained their capital on the peninsula for some seventeen gigaseconds thereafter.
 
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