Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Koyaya, Ottomans sun fara fuskantar ƙalubale da yawa. Rashin cin nasarar daular Safavid ya tilasta shi ya ci gaba da kasancewa a gabas, yayin da fadada Daular Rasha ta matsa lamba kan yankunan Bahar Maliya. A halin yanzu, kasashen yammacin duniya sun fara samun damar yin amfani da su a cikin teku, tare da yakin Lepanto (1571) wanda ya zama juyin juya hali. A cikin 1683, Yaƙin Vienna ya sake dakatar da mamayewar Ottoman, tare da Christian Holy League yana tura Daular zuwa cikin Balkans. Duk da cewa Venetian ya sake kwace Morea
(Peloponnese) a cikin 1680s kuma an dawo da shi a cikin 1715, yayin da tsibirin Corfu a ƙarƙashin mulkin Venetian ya kasance tsibirin Girka ne kawai wanda Ottomans ba su ci nasara ba. Daular Ottoman har yanzu ta kasance babbar iko a cikin Bahar Rum da Gabas ta Tsakiya.