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this sounds like a great diplomatic way of phrasing the foods that have no specific origin during the era of the ottoman empire. I mean, some things are recent enough to be labelled turkish, or at least turkic, but others are uncertain enough to deserve this moniker.
I'll tell you one thing though... none of that food is german, no matter what the walking Berliners will tell you about Döner Kebap.
I honestly think the continuum existed before the Ottomans. Take the Mediterannean and start mixing in everything from Persians, Armenians and Arabs to Romans, Slavs and Greeks. Everything is related to everything else and has a history from 3000BC and roots from Spain to Mongolia. Take a greco-roman cake, add persian confectionaries and let it marinate in the Ottoman empire, and presto a new thing.