Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4923787-20131005001125/@comment-4923787-20131027014153

I think you guess correctly.

But could their attempts to hold on the Mid-East, intrigues in the Court, civil war, economic problems, and Turkic, Bulgarian, and Serbian rebellion tople the empire? Would this just lead to OTL conditions, or could disputes with the newly-independent Turks keep a common Turkish state from forming long enough for a Balkan state to keep them from crossing into Europe?