Your challenge, if thoust choose to take it upon thyself to abide by it, is to find a way to have the Ottomans to be able to be involved during the war, using the chaos to expand more into Europe. I know they had internal problems. Could these be butterflied away without butterflying the war?
AHC: Ottoman involvement in the Thirty Years' War
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I know nothing about it except for what I just read on Wikipedia, but it seems as though the Ottomans actually flubbed against Poland during the war when they tried to intervene on behalf of their vassal, Transylvania.
Assuming the Ottomans could muster a victory, maybe Galicia could be carved out of Poland, or their focus returned to taking Vienna after knocking Poland out of the war?
While I'm always surprised that the Turks didn't take advantage of the Thirty years' war to attack the Habsburgs, there was a reason for that: war with the Persians. The Ottoman and Safavid empires were at war from 1623 to 1639, and by the time they made peace both empires were exhausted. So if you want the Turks involved you have to either keep them from going to war with Persia or have them make peace with them earlier.
Get the planned Mughal invasion of Persia to get off the ground.