Now that I've thrown a bunch of words at you, here's some exposition.
In an article about the Ottoman Empire, they argued that while Asia minor was sort of the central stronghold of the Empire, and the area around the black sea straits was the command centre, and of course there were important cultural and religious reasons to hold on to muslim lands, the European parts of the Empire were their most proportionally productive breadbasket and objectively the most "valuable" part.
These territories were also arguably settler colonies, though the native-to-settler ratio never reached American levels overall.
So this is the scenario: could a more populous turkish settlement colony emerge in this area, eventually declare its independence from the Ottoman Empire and become a major European (and global) power in its own right (with all "native" european populations mostly assimilated or otherwise too marginalized to reclaim the territories for themselves, rather like native Americans in the US today) ?
Would European powers try to step in to destroy this entity out of principle, in a sort of new reconquista (the only other event I can think of where such a large settler majority was eventually defeated) ?
In an article about the Ottoman Empire, they argued that while Asia minor was sort of the central stronghold of the Empire, and the area around the black sea straits was the command centre, and of course there were important cultural and religious reasons to hold on to muslim lands, the European parts of the Empire were their most proportionally productive breadbasket and objectively the most "valuable" part.
These territories were also arguably settler colonies, though the native-to-settler ratio never reached American levels overall.
So this is the scenario: could a more populous turkish settlement colony emerge in this area, eventually declare its independence from the Ottoman Empire and become a major European (and global) power in its own right (with all "native" european populations mostly assimilated or otherwise too marginalized to reclaim the territories for themselves, rather like native Americans in the US today) ?
Would European powers try to step in to destroy this entity out of principle, in a sort of new reconquista (the only other event I can think of where such a large settler majority was eventually defeated) ?