AHC/WI: Catholic Turkish Empire

How could the Ottoman Empire, or a Turkish empire with similar extent, be Catholic, and what would the effects be?

As for how they could become Catholic, perhaps somehow the whole Latin Empire and Fourth Crusade somehow leads to some Turkish beyliks becoming Catholic, and they ally with the Latin Empire against Nicaea? Or perhaps during an Ottoman civil war a Catholic faction (how it arises, I don't know) takes power--but it would take quite some time for them to regain the Ottomans' territory, and they might not be able to regain all of it?
 
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I really doubt that would happen. The most likely (which isn't very) is an orthodox conversion and besides that apostasy on a statewide level would make them one of the most hated groups in the region by Muslims, including their own citizens.
 
Catholic Turkey just seems really off. An Orthodox Turkey is more likely, but not be much.
 
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You would definitely need a PoD around Seljuq's time. Seljuq himself used to serve in the Khazar army meaning that he could have been raised as Jewish or Nestorian Christian. Although it would make a great TL if there was an alternate history about a Nestorian Turkic state somewhere in Asia.
 
The Ottoman Empire would never work. Now what would be an interesting and potentially plausible way to make something of the sort would be to have the early stages of the Sultanate of Rum convert to Orthodoxy in an attempt to integrate the conquered Christians in their territory and legitimise their claim to being Roman. Then, when Western wars with the Byzantines go on, the Latins offer to support the Turkish claim on Constantinople on the condition that they become Catholic. The conversion may or may not last if the Sultanate takes Constantinople from the Byzantines, but if it does you have a powerful Catholic Turkish polity that may well come to encompas what was OTL the Ottoman Empire.
 

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Chalcedonian Orthodoxy might not work, but Nestorianism might. As the story goes, Osman saw Muslims fighting Nestorians. The Nestorians were winning, so he nobly sided with the losing faction. If, say, the story is true and the Nestorians were to end up the losers, then you might be able to get Nestorian Ottomans.
 
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