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Dec 2019
24m 11s

Caner Yelbaşı on the Circassians in Turk...

WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
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Caner Yelbaşı, researcher in history at Mardin Artuklu University, on “The Circassians in Turkey: War, Violence and Nationalism from the Ottomans to Atatürk” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book describes the course of Circassians in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey after they were driven from their north Caucasus homeland by the Russian Empire in the 19th century. ... Show More
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