"The high aspirations of Western missionaries in the Ottoman Empire and their negligible successes in attempts to convert the Muslim population of the empire are well documented. After being met with the initial difficultly of such a task, Western missionaries focused their efforts on Ottoman Christians and providing social services to those communities. While the numbers they converted were small, missionaries are known to have played a prominent role in the politics of the period as figures situated between the local communities of the Ottoman Empire and the imperial powers of the Christian world. Considerably less has been written on Ottoman efforts to proselytize abroad, and while these activities were likewise focused on Muslim communities in Asia and Africa, Europe was also on the radar."
http://www.docblog.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/11/the-death-of-religion-and-ottoman.html?m=1
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