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ottom current correctly. When the bottom current is tracked
and traced correctly, the events that took place in a civilisation
can be evaluated with a more different point of view.
Just as Romans utilized the culture of the Ancient Greek
civilisation, Ottomans also implemented the Islamic culture
of the middle age. For this reason, Ottomans considered
themselves as the complementary to Seljuks, went towards
the west, going down to Mediterranean sea, leaning on the
culture of Seljuks. According to Ökten, the fact that Ottomans
tracked and traced this bottom current so accurately,
has escaped observations for a long time. In that period, the
trade was flowing in Mediterranean, and Ottomans took
great benefit of this rich flow of trade because they analyzed
the Seljuks in detail, and knew a great deal about
the civilizations which were active in the Mediterranean
basin. Okten gives an example to illustrate his argument:
“For instance, Fatih aranged an expedition to Otranto and
blocked the way to Adriatic. This expedition is a continuum
of the expedition that Murat the 2nd made to Albania.
Because it is the easiest way to reach Adriatic, that is
the route for the trade in mediterranean. All these are the
intertwined rings in the circle of civilization. It is the happenning
reference to the argument mentioned in our first
conversation, namely ’civilizations who open their doors
for improvements develop.’.”
In accordance with Okten’s statements, the location of the
Seljuks is Anatolia. However, the location of the Ottomans
are Anatolia, Balkans, Central European and Eastern Mediterranean.
Although locations were fixed, the events that happened
change over the time. Just as
the aforesaid concept of coreform in
the previous talk, concepts of space and
time are like interwined spheres as well.
As the core is, and should be, stable while
the forms do, and should, change, place
can be stable while the happenings of
the events may change. Okten thinks
that the strength of a civilisation depends
on how accurately these changes and
bottom currents are analysed.
Closure of the Curtains Brought
the End of the Ottoman Adventure
The necessity for the civilisations to interact
has created the communication concept.
According to Okten, communication
was perfect during the early times
of the Ottoman empire. The Ottoman
State and civilization had interactions
with all civilizations and states available.