Western Ottomans?

So, the Ottomans.

On the one hand, they held onto Belgrade until 1867, and managed to make a good go of it as late as the Great War. On the other hand, it's hard not to feel like they underperformed; they fell behind their western names technologically, they didn't adop tthe printing press for centuries, etc. You see a lot of great ideas; a Suez canal, a Volga-Don canal, Ottoman naval assaults on Diu, etc, but none of these happened due to institutional inertia.

How can we get an Ottoman Empire that keeps up with the west?
 
This video has an interesting take on it, I am not very good at that particular era, so I don't have much else to contribute. I imagine another factor is the fact that due to being muslim they were seen as separate from the Christian world, so perhaps something could be done to change that, I'm not sure what though.
 
Give Selim III more balls to take down the Janissaries, and Tanzimat would've begun at minimal, 3 decades earlier.

perhaps it's better that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_Alliance
restricts selim iii a bit while this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemdar_Mustafa_Pasha runs the show. let's say a POD wherein he is informed about the janissary revolt before it breaks out. perhaps he can establish his own sadrazam dynasty (a la köprülüs and sokullus) but more in line with the pitts. upon defeating the janissaries he can consolidate his powerbase and continue reforms.
 
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