Steppe you've never played a civilization game right? (only checking)

LeftEyeNine

What turkish empires can honestly come into the list of great empires (from a eurocentric view)? I can say two: Huns (that I've never known were a turkish people) and the Ottoman empire.
The Huns is ruled out because of lack of places, and that they would be a raider civ (like vikings, mongols) and the Mongols are already in and deserve that place better.

So here it remains the Ottomans. And yep they could surely fit into the list of civs, but there is too few spots, if you look at it closely. It's hardly something you can call them on for intentional evil or rascism. Would they include 8 more civs in a expansion and not include the Ottomans, then you can be on to something.