The sharifs were no better, the story of Fakhrudiin Pasha has always been interesting to me. Imagine the saudis besieging a holy city.@Somali Ugaas what's funny is how saudis r switching quick smart to secular to counter Iran who is challenging them on Islamic extremism, they switching so they can create secular islam now to challenge iran as 'radical' loooool, they did the same to turks, creating wahabism to challenge turks on sufism, but it was fuelled by their desire to be powerful n it was backed by brits who was in a war with the ottomans and wanted to open up multiple war fronts in it's backyard and who better but to use these najdi backward ppl. They even backed them with oil t ensure Islamic world can be tamed down to ignorance. Wicked ppl those najdis, they even kicked out the sharifs of mecca pro ottomans from hijaz who fled to jordan to create that country.
Yaab.
Abdulhamid the second should've dealt with the saudis not his mother's tol.
The man fasciantes me.
For 33 years he held of the inevitable fate of the 'sick man of europe'
Through his rapid modernization the steps for a modern turkey were built by him.