Every Turkish schoolboy grows up learning about the multitudes of contributions Turkey has made to Western civilization. My favorite one, not in the textbooks strangely enough, is the croissant. The story goes that the croissant was first concocted by Viennese pastry chefs in celebration of the collapse of the Viennese siege by the Ottomans in 1683, with the crescent on the Ottoman flags serving as the inspiration for the design. Well maybe it is just a legend, but it sounds too good to reject outright ...
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