Why did the Ottoman Empire ban the printing press? - Quora

Answer (1 of 7): I believe this is a very misunderstood subject in Ottoman Empire History. The printing press was used during at the end of 15 th century … After the conquest of Istanbul in 1453, the Jews were granted the right to have a printing press that used Hebrew characters. More Jews broug

Why do some Turkish people love Ataturk when he destroyed the Islam and the Ottoman Empire? - Quora

Can we say the motive for the Armenian genocide was the Turkification of the Armenian majority and/or densely Armenian populated cities in Eastern Turkey? - Quora

What led to the decline of the Ottoman Empire? - Quora

Why is the Ottoman Empire's conquest of Constantinople in 1453 regarded as the end of the Middle Ages? - Quora

Why did the Ottomans lose to Austria in 1683-1699 and in 1714, but win against them in 1739? - Quora

Why did the Ottoman empire not adopt the the printing press for some 300 years after its invention? What did the Muslim world miss out on due to this delay? - Quora

Is it true that Akbar had rejected Gutenberg's printing press from introduction to his empire? - Quora

Why didn't the Protestant Reformation flourish in the Ottoman Empire? - Quora

Why did the Ottomans not adopt western technology? - Quora

Did the Ottomans trade with Europe? - Quora