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The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in the same villages and cities. The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and rise of the nation-state violently altered this situation. Nationalist elites intervened in heterogeneous populations they identified as objects of knowledge, …

The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia Read More »

The new common language will be more simple and regular than the existing European languages. It will be as simple as Occidental; in fact, it will be Occidental. To an English person, it will seem like simplified English, as a skeptical Cambridge friend of mine told me what Occidental is. The European languages are members …

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