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This has always baffled me. Despite the fact that the Portugese were making a killing and cutting into their own profits, the Ottomans did not try harder to stop the Portugese. Instead, they fought needless wars in the Mediterranean, when the value for that sea was going down by every year. Surely Suleiman could have done more to combat the Portugese, than take over Hungary or try for Malta, for example? Could the Turks have done in the Indian Ocean, if they had stopped pickng fights in Europe?
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