Turkey's Nationalists Threaten
By: Cengiz Çandar for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse. Posted on April 2.
To challenge the opposition nationalists, Turkey’s ever self-confident Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan alluded to the Ottoman eyalet system of semi-autonomous provinces and recalled that during the Ottoman era there were eyalets called Kurdistan and Lazistan.
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