Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State : Evolving Identities, Competing Loyal...

Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State : Evolving Identities, Competing Loyalties, and Shifting Boundaries, Hardcover by Ozoglu, Hakan, ISBN 0791459934, ISBN-13 9780791459935, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UKKurdish nationalism remains one of the most critical and explosive problems of the Middle East. Despite its importance, the topic remains on the margins of Middle East Studies. Bringing the study of Kurdish nationalism into the mainstream of Middle East scholarship, Hakan Özogálu examines the issue in the context of the Ottoman Empire. Using a wealth of primary sources, including Ottoman and British archives, Ottoman Parliamentary minutes, memoirs, and interviews, he focuses on revealing the social, political, and historical forces behind the emergence and development of Kurdish nationalism. Contrary to the assumption that nationalist movements contribute to the collapse of empires, th argues that Kurdish leaders remained loyal to the Ottoman state, and only after it became certain that the empire would not recover did Kurdish nationalism emerge and clash with the Kemalist brand of Turkish nationalism.