The Last Days of the Ottomans — with Eugene Rogan and Faisal Al Yafai
The Lede
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The a K P and the Balkans
The twentieth century becomes a kind of interregnum for them, between the end of the calipate and the arrival of erdon in the a k p. And so it remains a kind of double edged appeal, this hearkening back to automan isina ye. It's interpreted very differently, i think, like in the rural pods, where they don't look at it as this kind of aggrandizement of ardoin but instead see it as a return to the greatness of turkey. That would be my impression.
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