Neither Arabs nor Turks much like glib talk about the Turkish model, not least because of the Ottoman imperial past.

由于过去土耳其帝国的原因，阿拉伯人和土耳其人都不愿意对土耳其模式夸夸其谈。

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Some grumble that old families from the Turkish Ottoman era, such as the Bugaigis and the Gherianis, related by marriage, are getting too many of the jobs in the budding new set-up;

有些抱怨，包括Bugaigis和Gherianis等通过婚姻关系联结的古老世家得到的新生就业机会太多了。

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Ottoman Turks built the Skull Tower after a bloody battle in 1809, decorating it with severed heads of Serbian soldiers who rose against Turkish rule.

1809年一场血雨腥风的战争过后，土耳其人建立了这座骷髅塔，用揭竿而起的反对土耳其统治的塞尔维亚战士之头骨装饰而成。

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They also opened in Syria, especially in the cosmopolitan city of Aleppo, and then in Istanbul, the capital of the vast Ottoman Turkish Empire, in 1554.

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One suggestion is that it should restore the 15th-century Fethiye mosque, one of only two in Athens to survive the past Greek practice of demolishing most Ottoman Turkish monuments.

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On that day the musketry and artillery of Selim the Grim, the Ottoman sultan, blasted to shreds the sword-wielding cavalry of Egypt's 250-year-old Mamluk sultanate, opening the way to 400 years of Ottoman Turkish rule over all but the peripheries of the Arab world.

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