>In Ottoman court literature and bureaucratic documents, you can find deeply unflattering phrases like Etrak-ı bî-idrak ("the witless Turks") or Kaba Türk ("the rude/coarse Turk").
>Türk-i bed-lika (the ugly-faced Turk), Türk-i şütür-ban (the camel-driver Turk), Eşkiya-yı Etrak (the Turkish bandits), and Hımar Türk (the donkey Turk)
>>222050325>>222050356Where was that one I think it was called 'Turk-head' and was supposed to be extremely offensive
Has there ever been another time when an ethnic slur got transformed into a proud national identity?>inb4 NigerI said proud.
>>222050325The most humiliating thing about the Ottoman Empire from the Turkish perspective is that only 3 (three) Sultans were pure blooded Turks. They almost altogether stopped marrying into Turkish houses, the rest married into European nobility.
>>222050359Yes. It was analogous to "retard"
>>222050399What is this picture? Meetup of agglutinative language enthusiasts?
>>222050325It was used in the latest times of the empire
>>222050356>the ugly-faced Turkliterally me i have oily acne prone skin
>Within the Ottoman Empire, the name "Turk" was sometimes used to denote the Turkmen backwoodsmen, bumpkins, or the illiterate peasants in Anatolia. "Etrak-i bi-idrak", for example, was an Ottoman play on words, meaning "the ignorant Turk".[28] Donkey turk was also used.>In the words of a British observer of the Ottoman values and institutions at the start of the twentieth century: "The surest way to insult an Ottoman gentleman is to call him a 'Turk'. His face will straightway wear the expression a Londoner's assumes, when he hears himself frankly styled a Cockney. He is no Turk, no savage, he will assure you, but an Ottoman subject of the Sultan, by no means to be confounded with certain barbarians styled Turcomans, and from whom indeed, on the male side, he may possibly be descended.">As a sophisticated ruling class, the Ottomans looked down upon the Turkish peasantry, calling them Eşek Turk (the donkey Turk) and Kaba Turk (stupid Turk). Expressions like "Turk-head" and "Turk-person" were contemptuously used by Ottomans when they wanted to denigrate each other.[26][27][28] In the early modern period, an educated urban-dwelling Turkish-speaker who was not a member of the military-administrative class would refer to himself neither as an Osmanlı nor as a Türk, but rather as a Rūmī (رومى), or "Roman", meaning an inhabitant of the territory of the former Byzantine Empire in the Balkans and Anatolia. The term Rūmī was also used to refer to Turkish-speakers by the other Muslim peoples of the empire and beyond
>>222051331hilarious and ridiculous ethnicity if you can call them that>The surest way to insult an Ottoman gentleman is to call him a "Turk"But I thought the "How happy is the one who says I am a Turk" is the motto of the modern TVRK...
>>222050796Weirdo Altaic LARPers I think. Note the people making Grey Wolf signs. I saved these off /int/ ages ago.>>222051496The whole reason Kemal pushed that slogan was because people needed it drilled into their heads that being a Turk was no longer shameful.
>>222050399Beef-Eaters I suppose?TBF it was a pretty limp slur on the part of the french.>>222051496tbf, didint you guys still larp as being Roman until the late 1800s too?
>>222052893The main reason the Romios name stuck with us was because Hellas and Hellene used to mean the place and the people practicing the ancient Greek religion which was being persecuted after the adoption of Christianity
