All hail Neo-Ottomanism and the restoration of Sultan Erdogan!
At its zenith, the Ottoman Empire was a bastion of technological innovation and (relative) amounts of religious and cultural tolerance.
I know the point you're trying to make, but I just had to..... 
The Ottoman Empire was never a bastion of technological innovation, as for their religious "tolerance", Christians and Jews was second class citizens, there was attempted forced conversion of non-Sunni Muslims and Yazidi's was often attecked slaughtered, enslaved and forced converted by the Ottomans.
There was nothing positive about the Ottoman Empire, it only functioned through continued raiding and plundering, and when further expansion became impossible, they turned the looting inward. In the 17th century a period where the Ottoman Balkans was at peace, it saw a fall in population greater than Germany's under the 30 Year War.
There's a reason that people in the Balkans who was under Austrian rule have some nostalgia toward the Habsburg, while only the Bosniaks have any positive view of the Ottoman, even the Albanians a mostly Muslim people celebrate a Catholic prince who fought the Ottomans as their national hero.
