The Ottoman Empire was no longer dependent on Russia. It continued to rely on the European powers for protection. The Ottomans tried to do everything they could, despite many attempts at internal reform. The decline of the Ottoman Empire was continuing to happen; It gave Turkey the ”sick man of Europe,” as it came to be known. This cartoon was printed in the 1900's. It shows Turkey and the position they were in when the turn of the century was going on. Turkey is surrounded by austria, depicted as the eagle with the two heads. Russia is the bear wearing a crown. Britain is shown as a man straddling Malta and Corfu and having a leash around Egypt; which is a lion with a leash.