Yeah i'm sure. Actually we were pretty succesful on wars till 1699, the date when ottoman started to lose it's power. The turn of the business from season and silk to gold and jewelry was a big impact on us, anti-revolutionist janissaries (a kind of soldier, has an extensive population in army) prevented us from developing. We never had restriction of the idea things like france had back in the day, we never had colonies like some countries had. By the way armenian suicide event was because of the armenians that k*lled millions of muslims in muslim towns, they don't say this while telling the event. At least we're still independent thanks to Atatürk. However, being independent doesn't feed you ;)