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by bluesign 2310 days ago
for literacy you are right, should be around 10%, for Turkish literacy I think OP is closer, around 1%
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totally 1% for turkish from 1400-1800s, it increased a lot from 1800 to 1915.

christians west and muslims/christians in marmara and balkans have up to 30% literacy. also western missionary schools became abundant everywhere in the ottoman empire after 1800s. big city administrative staff (non-turkish muslims) also had higher than turks which were farmer.