“There are those who think that ‘The collapse of the Ottoman
Empire has not yet finished. Everywhere has split up as Ottoman
provinces. Only the Southeast is left; and that is the final
stage. Once that breaks away, too, the collapse of the Empire
will be complete.’ But division is a sin whether or not the
Ottoman Empire even exists. Allah imposes unity among Muslims as
an obligation.” There is a theory proposed by some people that
‘The collapse of the Ottoman Empire has not yet finished, it is
still going on.’ In other words, they supposedly see the Ottoman
Empire surviving within the Republic of Turkey. They regard the
Southeast as one of the provinces of the Ottoman Empire that has
not yet broken away. ‘The Southeast also needs to break away as
an Ottoman province. In the same way that Bulgaria, Greece and
all the other places broke away; just the Southeast now remains.
There is the final stage. Then the collapse of the Empire will
be complete,’ they think. For one thing, the Ottoman Empire
never pressured