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Dec 2022
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Derya Ozkul on Alevis in contemporary Tu...

WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
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Derya Ozkul on “The Alevis in Modern Turkey and the Diaspora: Recognition, Mobilisation and Transformation” (Edinburgh University Press), a volume she co-edited with Hege Markussen.

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