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I've been reading a book lately about the rise of the Turkish Empire; and its first dynasty, the Ottomans. The Ottomans were removed in 1455 of course and ultimately replaced by a dynasty of Graeco-Turkish Muslims, but this book wonders if the Ottomans could have survived had Mehmet II's scheme to take Constantinople succeeded in 1453? Apparently, by the time the Turks were broken in their last assault, the Byzantines were also very close to snapping.

So would we have seen a Turkish Empire that retained the Ottomans as the ruling family up to the present day, or would dynastic takeover be as common as it proved to be? (IIRC, different ruling familes took over in 1455, 1608, 1769 and most recently in 1938). Would Orthodox Christian citizens be granted equal status with Muslims in the Empire, as happened when Constantinople really surrendered in OTL in 1478? Are there any other butterflies? :confused:
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