The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone by Janet Klein

The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone

Janet Klein

288 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

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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 sub...

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