Why was the Ottoman empire not seen as an Arabic empire?
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The leading people of the Ottoman empire were not Arabs, but from Turkish tribes. They speak a variety of the Turkish languages (Ottoman Turkish). Turkish is its own language family, Arabic belongs to the Afro-Asiatic/Semitic language family.
Big areas of the empire were Arab, but there where also big non-Arab areas and peoples (Greece, Albania, the former Yugoslavia, Hungary, parts of the Ukraine...)
You say it was sharing the same religion, culture and language; that's not correct. The Ottoman empire was an empire with many peoples and religions. See for example the 1906 Ottoman census
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The Ottoman Empire was governed and administered by Turkish speaking peoples who originated from Central Asia, specifically, the region of Turkestan, which is located in the Chinese frontier near Uzbekistan. Ottoman Turks were and are Islamic in their religious identity, though they were and are not ethnically or linguistically Semitic. The Ottoman Empire conquered many Arab Muslim lands and peoples, though one must also remember that they conquered many non-Arab, Christian lands in Western Asia and the Balkans/Southeast Europe.
The Arabs were and are, a Semitic peoples, who descend from the line of Ibrahim/Abraham whereas the Ottoman Turks had no ancestral connection to the Semitic peoples of the Middle East.
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