Somebody has to say this !
1) This is a good point.
2) Considering that they are stronger ITTL under a more competent leadership, and apparently Ottomans underestimated them quite much by didn't even apply the basic cautiousness, they deserve it. But that's the "destiny", that is the OPPORTUNITY, and national concience (if there was any valid one, though I guess there was kind of one, considering the existence of Phanariot caste) is nothing without it.
3) It's just fine and healthy to have sympathy towards a kind or another, but something doesn't perish just because one doesn't favor the said something because it conflicts with one that you sympathizes.
All in all, I strongly suggest you to withstand against even what you believe in if it's about to consume you from your ability to commence anything under a proper logic and to see history as it is. This TL has its beauty due to your ability to write it realistically, and this TL may has the potential to be an Ottoman-bashing TL which I will going to give a proud thumb up on. Keep it up, and don't let your allegiance into something else other than objective truth even bother standing 1 km from it. This is AH.com, and its existence is for but for giving ones the pleasure that can only be obtained from actually true, historical truths! There is no AH.com but AH.com, and Ian is her administrator. AH.COM AKBAR !!!
I thing that Abdul Hadi Pasha is aware of the following:
1. Great Powers, like the Ottoman Empire (or Byzantium before it) tend to dissintegrate when they stop evolving.
2.The Greeks couldn'd be halted in their way to independence. Their national concience was too firm. In addition, the Greeks, as all the Christians in the empire were seen as "third-class" subjects of the state.
3. The exodus of the Muslims from mainland Greece, especially the military feudarchs couldn't be prevented, since they were seen as conquerors, tyrants and foreigners.
I'm not sure if an understanding between Greeks and Turks was possible in this time, considering the ideologies of the two nations. It's nevertheless sad that an understanding wasn't reached in the years to come.
1) This is a good point.
2) Considering that they are stronger ITTL under a more competent leadership, and apparently Ottomans underestimated them quite much by didn't even apply the basic cautiousness, they deserve it. But that's the "destiny", that is the OPPORTUNITY, and national concience (if there was any valid one, though I guess there was kind of one, considering the existence of Phanariot caste) is nothing without it.
3) It's just fine and healthy to have sympathy towards a kind or another, but something doesn't perish just because one doesn't favor the said something because it conflicts with one that you sympathizes.
All in all, I strongly suggest you to withstand against even what you believe in if it's about to consume you from your ability to commence anything under a proper logic and to see history as it is. This TL has its beauty due to your ability to write it realistically, and this TL may has the potential to be an Ottoman-bashing TL which I will going to give a proud thumb up on. Keep it up, and don't let your allegiance into something else other than objective truth even bother standing 1 km from it. This is AH.com, and its existence is for but for giving ones the pleasure that can only be obtained from actually true, historical truths! There is no AH.com but AH.com, and Ian is her administrator. AH.COM AKBAR !!!