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You can influence a single leader in history(exception: the years 1900-2016 to make it more intresting) to make a decision.Who do you influence and in what way in order to make the world today a better place?

I would have to choose Mehmed the Conqueror.

No. This doesn't mean he converts to Christianity or that he magically is this noble leader like we see today. But it means that he takes considerable inspiration from the Romans,and takes religious tolerance as the norm. No jizya tax or selling Christians into slavery like in real life. In fact, he later puts his successor that tried to kill him for going against an idea.

This sends a precedence for religious tolerance and plurality in the Ottoman Empire akin to the Mongols and beating the Dutch to the punch. While Ottoman leadership wasn't as much intolerant, taking down this particular mindset would make things far more complicated and interesting. Not to mention it would be a completely new precedent in the Islamic world [at least in centuries] that a major Islamic power is more resembling Western values.

Would Vlad the Impaler be willing to kill Turks if they offered help against foreign interventions from Germans and other groups that consisted of the Boyars? I don't believe he'd really care what he did as long as he didn't turn against the Turks and made Romania a sort of autonomous region within the Empire. Same would basically go for anyone else. Protestants would likely flock more as well as any other groups such as the Jews.

Orthodox Christians wouldn't feel much animosity against this new government and Turks in general as this anti-non-Muslim behavior would over the centuries would be frowned and looked down upon, if not prosecuted, as persecution against other religions in the West would be as well. Ethnic tension that later disintegrated the Empire would be less of an issue because the flavors of it would be see as uncouth or uncultured. I wouldn't say that all intolerance would be wiped out, but it wouldn't be something that would be an overall problem.

In our timeline, the Ottoman Empire was one of the very first nations to recognize the United States because it wasn't something that was barred to theocratic rule. They even recognized the sovereignty of the various tribes as well. An Ottoman Empire culminating from this tolerance and pluralized tradition would do so as well. This is probably the only way the Ottomans could realistically survive until the modern era.
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