Event Title
From “Backstabbing Arabs” to “Deserting Kurds”: Reading nationalism through Turkish accounts of World War I
Start Date
12-11-2011 10:30 AM
Description
Veysel Simsek is a PhD candidate at the Department of History, McMaster University. His dissertation concentrates on the Ottoman “grand strategy” during the turbulent years of war and reform between 1826 and 1841. His broader research interest includes history of the late Ottoman Empire, war and society in the modern Middle East and Ottoman-European encounters.
From “Backstabbing Arabs” to “Deserting Kurds”: Reading nationalism through Turkish accounts of World War I
Veysel Simsek is a PhD candidate at the Department of History, McMaster University. His dissertation concentrates on the Ottoman “grand strategy” during the turbulent years of war and reform between 1826 and 1841. His broader research interest includes history of the late Ottoman Empire, war and society in the modern Middle East and Ottoman-European encounters.