European domination erased the Ottoman Empire down to its cultural memory.

Evidence

The Ottoman structural genocide was no less successful than any other. By the time Europe was finished with the Ottoman Empire, and after several decades of relentless domination and manipulation, there was virtually nothing left of it except a distant and distorted memory. Not only was it demolished institutionally, socially, economically, culturally, intellectually, and, concomitantly, politically, but even its memory was tarnished to the core. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 427