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A new trend to attack Turkey in Tunisia is to call the Ottomans invaders and to link them to the French colonization of Tunisia. Proponents of these stories are the panarabists, the Ben Ali era nationalists, and more broadly the anti-Qatar/by extension pro-UAE groups.
Take this article for instance: http://acharaa.com/ar/499475
In the Middle East, this works easily: Ottomans were hated by several ethnic groups, and their brutality is still alive in the collective memory, as they kept the Levantine nations under their direct rule until the 20th century.
Also in the Middle East and the Gulf, the postcolonial narrative in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon was partly anti-Ottoman (because some of these states were born out of a confrontation with the Empire).
Saudis and Emiratis do fuel these stories. Hence this recent article by Saudi Arabia's Okaz about how the Ottomans "sold" Algeria to France: https://www.okaz.com.sa/news/politics/2013848
