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“Consider Fatih only, he knew Greek, Latin, Italian,
Arabic and Persian. As a consequence of this, he was
aware of the developments and changes in civilizations.”
says Okten and underlines that communication
can also enable differences to be kept together.
”For example, followers of Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and
Ghazali argue before Fatih. Fatih listens to both sides,
actually It is a permissive of contemplation. Over the
time, though, this communication begins to be distorted,
and ends up stopping. The society, thus, begins to
retire into itself gradually, which makes it static over
the time. When the society becomes static, it ends up
in a situation where it can not see the world.”
As of the 19th century, it became a necessity to have
even closer contacts with the world and other civilisations.
Since a part of the society could not understand
the new “form” of the world, they came to the conclusion
that the virtues of our civilization were invalid.
This way of thinking caused a crisis which emerged
with the administrative reforms and the same crisis
still continues. Another part of the society, however,
blindly thought that our virtues were good, resisting
to let in any useful virtues or ideas from the outside
world, even though they did not have any awareness
about the world. Thus, the Ottoman Adventure formally
reached its end.
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