during ottoman times, bulgaria is walking across a big market in constantinople. he's intending on buying stuff with the money he has won fairly. he spots a beautiful glass ewer and is about to buy it when he suddenly hears turkey's (aka the ottoman empire's) voice.
'hey what are you doing? I was gonna buy that ewer!'
'well u should've, now I'ma buy it'
'noo, I saw it first, I should buy it'
'NOO I SAW IT FIRST IT'S MINE'
'NOOO I SAW IT FIRST'
'NOOO I SAW IT FIIIIRST'
and so they repeat their words several times until turkey's like 'aight, we're gonna fight, the winner gets to buy the ewer'
bulgaria thinks 'it's not like I have a chance against him'. something comes to his mind. he says 'nooo, we shouldn't, we'll be hurt afterwards, we'll be unable to do our work properly and ur boss is gonna get mad at us, tasking us with even more work!'
'dayum ur right' turkey pauses for a moment, then he comes up with something. 'ok, I've got an idea, let's scream, whoever screams louder gets to buy the ewer. hey you, merchant guy, ur gonna judge our screams'
bulgaria agrees with the idea, it's unknown if the merchant agreed too, but still
'ok, we both go at one! three, two, one!'
the following events unfold:
the beautiful glass ewer shatters
the merchant's eardrums burst, blood running down his cheeks
hundreds of seagulls start flying and quacking, scared of the loud sound
some of them shit while flying and their droppings hit random humans
one of these humans turns out to be the sultan, disguised as an ordinary person (yes sultans did that)
he also happened to witness (or hear? it's probably the last thing he'll have heard for a while) the screaming competition
let's say that turkey and bulgaria got into some real trouble
also the screaming competition happened during night time so they woke up like half of the city