"How Turkey became a republic?
Nauman Asghar
The Ottoman Empire expansion was characterized by continuous territorial conquests and it spread out from a small northwestern Anatolian principality to cover an empire encompassing southeastern Europe, Anatolia and the Arab world. During the sixteenth century the institutions of society and government that had been evolving in the Ottoman dominions for last two centuries reached the classical forms and patterns that were to characterize them until modern times. The reign of Suleman the magnificent marked the peak of Ottoman grandeur but elements of weakness started creeping in and began the slow but steady decline that followed."
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