otl, the period after the Siege of Vienna up to 1918 was bad for the ottomans- repulsed by their catholic rivals, loss of the balkans, greece, and the whole of north africa (not in that order), finally breathing it's last in 1918 for Ataturk to come in and create the modern republic.
Your challenge: keep it a major power. it doesn't have to keep expanding (at that point it's just rome tbh) but it should keep its hold on the balkans, mesopotamia, arabia, and at least some of egypt. an industrialized and modern military institutions (from what i know the janisarries are actually what doomed its military otl)
Your challenge: keep it a major power. it doesn't have to keep expanding (at that point it's just rome tbh) but it should keep its hold on the balkans, mesopotamia, arabia, and at least some of egypt. an industrialized and modern military institutions (from what i know the janisarries are actually what doomed its military otl)