Talk:Greeceball/@comment-32883368-20180609122939/@comment-31790865-20180615112749

Although I admit Jannisaries were a force to be reconed with, you have to understand that the majority of Jannisaries were Greeks,Slavs and Albanian children who were kidnapped from their home countries and sent to the Turkish mainland to be trained and become soldiers for the Sultan.

Turkey (the modern country) is in my opinion a state with so much potential (if only Erdogan could piss off and not create another Ottoman Empire). However the Ottomans were oppressive and are a painful memory of persecution and slavery to all in the Balkan peninsula (except for Albanians because apparently they likes being a vassal of the Ottomans).