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In Reply to: Re: Ottomen Empire posted by Jennifer Grubac on February 12, 1999 at 11:38:47:

: The Ottoman Empire is definately an interesting supject. Sullyman made many astounding accomplishments and he is still having an effect on the world today! If you don't know what I mean just take a look at the former Yugoslavia. Here is a nation who were once one, and through 500 years of Turkish occupation formed irreconcilable differences. The Turks imposed more than just themselves and their laws on the slavic people. Their religion, a source of conflict in the former Yugoslavia, was imposed on the people-and some accepted it so much that now through the centuries they are willing to die for these beliefs. The Ottoman effects are also being felt in this region in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Here, on the "Field of Crows" as it is translated, the Serbs were annalated by the Ottomans in battle. This defeat was also their victory in that they stopped the Turks from invading Austria. This region became an area of national pride and a religious center for the Serbian culture. It is, for them the center of their culture historically which is why they are so willing to fight for their right to keep Kosovo as a province of Serbia. The media in the Western World reflects only the suffering and the killing of the Albanians in Kosovo, it never reflects that there are also Serbian families who are suffering and being killed by the KLA(Kosovo Liberation Army). I would just like to remind people that it takes two sides to fight, you can not fight with yourself. I have seen pictures of an Albanian(therefore muslim) woman crying for her dead son over a cross-a direct contradiction to itself. That is just one example of the media bias and propoganda war which is going on in regard to that region. There is a lot more!

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: : The Ottoman Empire is definately an interesting supject. Sullyman made many astounding accomplishments and he is still having an effect on the world today! If you don't know what I mean just take a look at the former Yugoslavia. Here is a nation who were once one, and through 500 years of Turkish occupation formed irreconcilable differences. The Turks imposed more than just themselves and their laws on the slavic people. Their religion, a source of conflict in the former Yugoslavia, was imposed on the people-and some accepted it so much that now through the centuries they are willing to die for these beliefs. The Ottoman effects are also being felt in this region in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Here, on the "Field of Crows" as it is translated, the Serbs were annalated by the Ottomans in battle. This defeat was also their victory in that they stopped the Turks from invading Austria. This region became an area of national pride and a religious center for the Serbian culture. It is, for them the center of their culture historically which is why they are so willing to fight for their right to keep Kosovo as a province of Serbia. The media in the Western World reflects only the suffering and the killing of the Albanians in Kosovo, it never reflects that there are also Serbian families who are suffering and being killed by the KLA(Kosovo Liberation Army). I would just like to remind people that it takes two sides to fight, you can not fight with yourself. I have seen pictures of an Albanian(therefore muslim) woman crying for her dead son over a cross-a direct contradiction to itself. That is just one example of the media bias and propoganda war which is going on in regard to that region. There is a lot more!

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