The Last Days of the Ottomans — with Eugene Rogan and Faisal Al Yafai
The Lede
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The Memory of the Ottoman Front
Hinom: I wanted to talk about the memory of the war, because part of your motivation for writing book was that you felt the importance of the ottoman front during the first wa had been neglected. So in the national memories of arab countries, you wrote, it's considered some one else's war. And i pertically like this phrasing. It was somebody else's war that left martyrs but no heroes. Well, i would distinguish her between the native turkish speakers who were able to point to battlefield victories and to individual heroes,. Like most of the camal later at a turk... They really don't draw the line between the ottomon defeat in
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