Ottoman decline eventually made Western charges against the Turks partly accurate

Evidence

With the decline of the Ottoman Empire, some of the traditional charges against the Turks become in part justified. Ottoman culture declined into mere repetition and imitation of earlier models. Ottoman administration ran down until the Empire really was ramshackle. Increasing weakness in the face of foreign invasion and internal rebellion often led to oppression and brutality and tyranny. Suspicion, hatred, fear—and sometimes, we may add, the example of Western intolerance—transformed the Turkish attitude to the subject peoples. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 643