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This war was fought by these two sides: crusaders comprising Serbs, Hungarians, Germans (and other European nations of the day) whose main target was to clean the Balkans from Turks who did not even call themselves an army of Turks but an army of Allah and remember the former called themselves "the Crusaders" i.e another army of God....
In other words, this was a political and religious war rather than a nationalist one. Janisaries who took up important missions in this war were mostly converted Christians. Turkish army was bearing the flag of Islam.
Now what do you mean by racism? A great deal of Ottoman Pashas were European, some were even Christian. Ottomans supported the millet system which gave minorities control over their own internal affairs. What they hated was küfür, they called their European enemies küffar meaning infidels and in return Europeans called them infidels.
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