Why did the Ottomans not get involved in colonising Indonesia or America?

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OldWorldGlory

You might be interested in some previous threads on the Ottoman Empire and colonization:

The Lack of Colonies

Different Types of Colonies

  • Did the Ottomans have any ambition to colonize the new world? - 3 comments, over 7 months old.

  • A commenter in this thread talks about Ottoman exploration and imperial ambitions that they held for the Indian Ocean concurrent with the European colonization of the New World.

  • Why did the Ottoman Empire not colonize overseas - 3 comments, over 1 year old.

  • A commenter here gets into the types of colonial projects that the Ottomans were running close to home in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and on the coasts of the Red Sea.

  • Why did the Ottomans not try to colonize? - 3 comments, over 1 year old.

  • This summarizes the fate of these colonization projects from their genesis at the height of the Ottoman Empire to the end of this phase and gradual shrinking of the empire.