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  4. The greatest success of the Turks, their history as administrators,has been little appreciated in the West. For six hundred years the Ottoman Empire ruled successfully over a great land, an imperial record that can stand with that of Romans. The Ottomans created an empire of unique toleration, where many peoples and religions kept their own traditions at a time when religious persecution was the rule elsewhere. It was an empire of laws, held together by rules as much as by the personality of the sultan. It is no accident that the great sultan Süleyman, known to the West as The Magnificent, was known to the Turks as The Lawgiver, asign of his and the Empire's true success. If the achievements of the Turks in politics and law are littleknown in America, those in the humanities are even less so. Yet Turkish music, art, architecture, and poetry were the crowning glories, coming as they do from a different cultural tradition. The beauty of Turkish poetry may only be fully appreciated in Turkish and Turkish classical music may not perfectly match whatis expected by Western ears, but the beauty of Turkish art caneasily be seen. The grace of Turkish calligraphy, the colors of Turkish miniature paintings, and the geometric forms of Turkishporcelain tiles are known to be high art by anyone who has seenthem. The great mosques of Istanbul, especially Sinan's Süleymaniye Mosque, rival any buildings in the world. The accomplishments of modern Turkey have been in a different context. The task of the modern Turks was to create a democratic,independent society. In a time of imperialism, Turkey was oneof the few nations to keep its independence, despite great odds against it. Turkey was almost unique outside of Western Europeand North America in its sustained drive to gain democracy. Firs tnoted under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk for its campaign to educateand develop its people to live in the modern world. Turkey now is an economic success and a multiparty democracy. It is one of the few countries of its region that have significantly raised itself up economically, without oil revenues to depend on. Muchremains to be done, but the success is notable. Today, Turkey is a bridge between the Middle East and the West,as well as a bridge between the West and the newly freed lands of Central Asia. It is a state whose people are overwhelmingly Muslim, yet also a state that is thoroughly secular in its lawsand government. The great tradition of Islam is not forgotten,nor is the tradition of western philosophy, government, and technology.
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