Seriously, just by watching some TV shows about Ottoman sultans who were very rich, people have this idea.

港真，仅仅看一些展示土耳其苏丹们富有生活的电视剧，很容易让人产生这种感觉。

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Turks deny accusations of anti-Semitism, noting that the Ottoman Sultans opened their doors over 500 years ago to Jews fleeing from Christian persecution in Spain.

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In today's secular Turkey, people can still be heard murmuring a prayer as they pass the lavish tombs which the early Ottoman sultans liked to build.

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They then filled the new building with engravings and portraits of Ottoman sultans, French cavalry officers and Druze tribesmen, as well as faded photos of old Beirut and the villages of Mount Lebanon.

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