No, it wasn't the official language of the ottoman empire, the ottoman empire's official language was Ottoman Turkish and it isn't the Turkish language that is used today in Turkey.
Ottoman Turkish was written in the Arabic alphabet ( they use the Arabic letter in writing but it has different pronunciations and different phonetics) something similar to the Persian language and Urdu languages, both use the Arabic alphabet but both are different languages than Arabic like Italian and Spanish both are using same writing letters however two different languages
However Italian and Spanish both belong to Indo-European languages while Arabic belongs to the Semitic languages and Turkish belongs to the Oghuz languages two different languages group
but Ottoman Turkish has a lot of borrowed Arabic words and until now the Turkish language which is used in Turkey still has Arabic words due to being affected by Ottoman Turkish.
This a military document written in Ottoman Turkish I can't understand it but there are a lot of words I can because it is Arabic words.
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