Talk:Ottoman weapons

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There was a tag for copyedit, but this article actually has many issues.

I removed the commerical link to www.samarkandia.com. This site sells weapons, and has little factual information.

Otherwise, it draws heavily upon pictures in the Topkapi Palace, and seems to read more like a guide book (or of text from the displays), than a coherent article. This is a vast subject, and if divided as it is into types of armor, each could easily be an article on its own. Each article should have a history of development. Summarizing four or five centuries in a couple sentences does not produce a particularly useful result. The brief sections as they are seem to suggest there were few changes over this time.

There is some unsubstantiated peacock language: "They are widely accepted as the best bows in the world." "This was more practical than its European counterpart."

The article contradicts itself in one place...possibly because the material was cut-and-pasted? It says there are three kinds of bows, then four.

There are descriptions of the weapons, but almost nothing describing what they were used for, or where they were used, which soldiers used them, etc.

This article needs to be broken down into several articles, all of which need to be written from scratch by an expert.

24.130.9.210 (talk) 02:27, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello I have some resources at my disposal as well as a bit of time, with help from other editors I hope we will be able to map the progression of fire arms atleast from the 14th century onwards to the late 20th century. However it is important to note that most of the weapons at the Ottoman disposal from the 17th century were mainly from the European state e.g. flint lock rifles with Ottoman influences so we will discuss how to feature these. Also we might be able to use resources describing Turkic melee and ranged weapons because early Ottoman weapons were closely linked to their cousins. Overall I will start slowly adding new bits in and restructuring. I also have some ilustrations from the 18th centruy so they may be of some use.Tugrulirmak (talk) 19:27, 29 April 2011 (UTC)