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Those memes lack historical context. During the Ottoman era, the Ottomans were recognizing themselves as muslims, as the rest were considered slaves and not citizens. There were differentiations in certain areas but that was the main idea.

So basically by becoming muslim you had to forgo other concepts of identity, as being muslim was considered more than enough.