Kein heutiger Türke, oder sagen wir besser, wenige der gebildeten Türken würden sich zum "Griechentum" (was auch immer man darunter versteht) bekennen. Da haste recht.
Jedoch in der Historie sah es manchmal anders aus, indem z.B. der osm. Sultan zeitweise sich als legitimer Nachfolger und einzig berechtigter Kaiser von Rom ansah; diesen Titel auch hochoffiziell führte, und manchmal so vom Ausland angesprochen wurde. Also in "juristischer" Hinsicht fiel das "Erbe" des Kaisertums in die Hände der Osmanen, bzw. sie nahmen es sich.
Übrigens: Ist die Bundesrepublik Deutschland nicht "Erbe" Griechenlands? (Wegen den deutschen griechischen Königen Otto I. und Georg I., etc.)?
Ich möchte nun nicht den ganzen Thread nochmals aufdröseln, ich möchte dir und anderen nur noch als Ergänzung die historischen Verzweigungen aufzeigen, mit diesen bislang noch nicht von mir gebrachten Zitaten:
aus:
http://www.geschichtsforum.de/f171/ottoman-empire-21410/
"The Ottomans, in 1453, had destroyed the second Rome, Byzantium,
that had endured for one thousand years, from the fourth through the
fifteenth centuries. Through this act, the Ottoman state changed in status
from regional power to world empire. As destroyer, the Ottoman Empire
in some ways also was the inheritor of the Roman heritage in its eastern
Byzantine form. Indeed, Sultan Mehmet II, the conqueror of Constantinople,
explicitly laid down the claim that hewas a caesar, a latter-day
emperor, and his sixteenth-century successor, S¨uleyman the Magnificent,
sought Rome as the capstone of his career. Moreover, the Ottoman rulers,
having conquered the second Rome, for the next four hundred-plus years
honored its Roman founder in the name of the capital city. Until the
end of the empire, the city’s name – the city of Constantine – Konstantiniyye/
Constantinople – remained in the Ottomans’ official correspondence,
their coins, and on their postage stamps, after these came into use
in the nineteenth century. In some respects, the Ottomans followed certain
Byzantine administrative models. Like the Byzantines, the Ottomans
practiced a kind of caesaro-papism, the system in which the state controlled
the clergy. In the Ottoman judiciary the courts were run by judges,
members of the religious class, the ulema. The Ottoman sultans appointed
these judges and thus, like their Byzantine imperial predecessors,
exercised a direct control over members of the religious establishment.
In addition, to give another example of Byzantine–Ottoman continuities,
Byzantine forms of land tenure carried over into the Ottoman era. While
the Ottomans forged their own unique synthesis and were no mere imitators
of their predecessors, their debt to the Byzantines was real.
...
Ultimately, the Ottoman system should be seen
as a highly effective blend of influences deriving from Byzantium, the
Turkish nomads, and the Balkan states, as well as the Islamic world."
aus:
http://www.geschichtsforum.de/f171/ottoman-empire-early-modern-europe-21581/
"Associations between the Ottoman Empire and the other states of
Europe extended beyond commercial exchange and military campaign.
The territories, indeed the very institutions, of the Ottoman Empire were
in some ways successors to the Byzantine Empire, which, as an heir to
Rome, was the most revered of European states. Not only did both the
Byzantine and Ottoman political entities utilize a religious ideology as the
glue for a vast territory and a diverse population, but also the Ottomans
came to rule over virtually the same domains and peoples as had Constantine’s
eastern Roman heirs 1,000 years before. Furthermore, the successor
state adopted much of the Byzantine tax structure through the
utilization of customary law, which the Ottomans blended into sultanic
law as a complement to Islamic law.14
This is not to say that the Ottoman polity constituted no more than a
superimposed image of its immediate predecessor. It did not. Not only
did the empire rely upon traditions from its own central-Asian past, but
it also embraced Persian (particularly financial and political) and Arab
(particularly spiritual) legacies.15 The Ottomans fused these heritagestogether with the Byzantine one into a unique order that endured for
half a millennium. The threads of Ottoman legitimacy thus converged
from the east, from the south, and from the north. Nevertheless the chief
impression, at least from the perspective of much of Europe, was that
the Ottoman Empire was the Byzantine Empire reborn, even though this
rebirth may have appeared misshapen. When viewed from the West the
Ottoman polity seemed to have arisen like a monster out of the Byzantine
ashes. Evil or not, as the successor to a major Christian and Mediterranean
civilization, both European and Ottoman considered the new state
very much a part of the European world. Although many western Europeans
hated it on ideological grounds, most also acknowledged that the
empire could not be ignored, and some even grasped that it could not
easily be expunged. Ways were found to accommodate it.
...
Whereas, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the Ottomans had
borrowed some of the structures of the European state, under S¨uleyman
they seem to have challenged the Catholic version of European history
itself – to reimagine it as a vision that harkened back to the pre-Christian
past and to fashion the Ottoman Empire rather than the papacy or the
Holy Roman Empire as the rightful successor to Greek and Roman
civilizations. Even though this attempt to refashion European history
failed, the construct itself was not all that farfetched. Geographically it
certainly made sense, and even historically what gave Germanic barbarians
(whom Charles V represented) any more right to carry the banner
of Rome than Turkic ones? Even ideologically, the Ottomans’ case was
strong: whereas Christianity claimed to have supplanted Judaism, followers
of Islam insisted that it was the only pure monotheism, that it
represented the Abrahamic faith, and that both Judaism and Christianity
were merely badly corrupted versions of Islam. Under S¨uleyman, then,
Ottoman authorities proposed to reinvent a Europe in the empire’s own
image, even as Protestantism was forcing western Europe to reinvent
itself."
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Gute Nacht.
