A farkon shekarun 1800, daular Usmaniyya ta fuskanci kalubale da dama.Juyin Juyin Juya Halin Serbia a 1804 ya haifar da 'yancin cin gashin kai na al'ummar Kirista ta Balkan ta farko a karkashin daular.Yaƙin samun 'yancin kai na Girka , wanda ya fara a farkon 1821, ya ba da ƙarin shaida na raunin ciki da na soja na daular.Rushe kungiyar Janissary da Sultan Mahmud II ya yi a ranar 15 ga watan Yunin 1826 (Auspicious Incident) ya taimaka wa daular a cikin dogon lokaci amma ya hana ta da sojojin da take da su a cikin kankanin lokaci.A cikin 1827, rundunar Anglo-Franco-Rasha ta lalata kusan dukkanin sojojin ruwa na Ottoman a yakin Navarino.Yarjejeniyar Adrianople (1829) ta ba jiragen ruwan kasuwanci na Rasha da na Yammacin Turai damar wucewa ta mashigin tekun Black Sea.Har ila yau, Serbia ta sami 'yancin kai, kuma Masarautun Danubian (Moldavia da Wallachia) sun zama yankuna karkashin kariyar Rasha.Rasha , a matsayin memba na Mai Tsarki Alliance, ya yi aiki a matsayin "'yan sanda na Turai" don kula da ma'auni na iko da aka kafa a cikin Congress na Vienna a 1815. Rasha ta taimaka Austria kokarin murkushe Hungarian juyin juya halin 1848. kuma ana sa ran samun ‘yanci don magance matsalolinta da Daular Usmaniyya, “majin rashin lafiya na Turai”.Duk da haka, Biritaniya ba za ta iya lamunta da mamayar da Rasha ke yi a harkokin Ottoman ba, wanda zai kalubalanci mamayar da take yi a gabashin tekun Bahar Rum.Tsoron Biritaniya nan da nan shi ne fadadawar da Rasha ta yi a kan daular Usmaniyya.Birtaniya sun so su kiyaye mutuncin Ottoman kuma sun damu da cewa Rasha na iya samun ci gaba zuwa Birtaniya Indiya ko kuma zuwa Scandinavia ko Yammacin Turai.Hankali (a cikin sigar Daular Ottoman) a gefen kudu maso yammacin Burtaniya zai rage wannan barazanar.Sojojin ruwa na sarauta kuma sun so hana barazanar sojojin ruwan Rasha masu karfi.Burin Sarkin Faransa Napoleon na III na maido da martabar Faransa ya haifar da jerin abubuwan da suka faru kai tsaye da Faransa da Birtaniyya suka shelanta yaki kan Rasha a ranakun 27 da 28 ga Maris 1854, bi da bi.