The Margins of Empire : Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone /
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Ottoman state identified multiple threats in its eastern regions. In an attempt to control remote Kurdish populations, Ottoman authorities organized them into a tribal militia and gave them the task of subduing a perceived Armenian threat. Following the stor...
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2011
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |