User talk:Touranli

True, Ottoman Turkish used far more Arabic than Persian, simply because Persian itself was largely influenced by Arabic, additional to this is, Ottoman ruled the Arab region for 5 centuries, with a unification style rather than colonization, the Arab people which made up majority of the empire population, where subjects of that empire in the truest sense. Very high ranking personnel in both the state and the army where from the Cham ( Syria, Jordan, Iraq today ), Arabic language was almost the official language of the state, I personally come from a small town on the very north east tip of the Mediterranean ( Ersoz ), my land deeds documents are all in Arabic. All the efforts to wipe out the Arabic overlay from Turkish were met and offset with the hard reality that Arabic is embedded in the very origin of the Turk language that came with the tribes in their westward journey.