How the Occupation of Istanbul Shaped the Modern Middle East
April 20, 2015 | Julie Harbin
Erdag Goknar discusses the ramifications of the post WWI-partition of the Middle East. Photo by Julie Harbin
Durham, NC - At the end of World War I, the defeated capital of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul, was “a city of poverty and refugees” with a multi-ethnic population of 1 million, with 100,000 refugees including Balkan Muslims, Russians, Crimean and Caucasian Muslims, Jews, Armenians and Turks.
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