Walaupun posisi Turki pada perdamaian antara pemerintah Filipina dan otoritas Bangsamoro mewakili OKI, namun jauh sebelumnya ada hubungan sejaran antara keduanya.
Beberapa kesultanan di Filipina merupakan bagian dari Uthmaniyah. Walaupun bagian di sini bukan berarti negara jajahan tapi tunduk pada otoritas Khilafah Utsmaniyah walau tetap sebagai kerajaan yang independen.
Menurut Wikipedia, Uthmaniyah dulunya pernah mendamaikan Kerajaan/Kesultanan di Filipina dengan Amerika Serikat.
In 1899, John Hay, the American Secretary of State, asked the Jewish American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Oscar Straus to request Sultan Abdul Hamid II to write a letter to the Moro Sulu Muslims of the Sulu Sultanate in the Philippines telling them to submit to American suzerainty and American military rule (see Philippine–American War). The Sultan obliged and wrote the letter, which was sent to Sulu via Mecca; two Sulu chiefs delivered it to Sulu and it was successful since the "Sulu Mohammedans... refused to join the insurrectionists and had placed themselves under the control of our army, thereby recognizing American sovereignty."
Abdul Hamid used his position as caliph to order the Sulu Sultan not to resist and not fight the invading Americans.
President McKinley did not mention the Ottoman role in the pacification of the Sulu Moros in his address to the first session of the 56th Congress in December 1899 since the agreement with the Sultan of Sulu was not submitted to the Senate until December 18. Despite Sulu's "pan-Islamic" ideology, he readily acceded to Straus' request to avoid hostilities between the West and Muslims. The Sulu sultan was persuaded by the Ottoman Sultan.
John P. Finley wrote that,
"After due consideration of these facts, the Sultan, as Caliph caused a message to be sent to the Mohammedans of the Philippine Islands forbidding them to enter into any hostilities against the Americans, inasmuch as no interference with their religion would be allowed under American rule. As the Moros have never asked more than that, it is not surprising, that they refused all overtures made, by Aguinaldo's agents, at the time of the Filipino insurrection. President McKinley sent a personal letter of thanks to Mr. Straus for the excellent work he had done, and said, its accomplishment had saved the United States at least twenty thousand troops in the field. If the reader will pause to consider what this means in men and also the millions in money, he will appreciate this wonderful piece of diplomacy, in averting a holy war."
The Muslim peoples obeyed the order.
In 1904, the Moro Rebellion then broke out between the Americans and Moro Muslims. The US committed atrocities against Moro Muslim women and children, such as the Moro Crater Massacre.
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