The Circassian: A Life of Esref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent by Fortna, Benjamin C.
The Circassian: A Life of Esref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent by Fortna, Benjamin C.

The Circassian: A Life of Esref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent

Esref Kusçubasi remains controversial in Turkey over fifty years after his death. Elsewhere the man sometimes called...
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The Circassian: A Life of Esref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent by Fortna, Benjamin C.

The Circassian: A Life of Esref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent

$723.28
The Circassian: A Life of Esref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent by Fortna, Benjamin C.

The Circassian: A Life of Esref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent

$723.28
Author: Benjamin C. Fortna
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Esref Kusçubasi remains controversial in Turkey over fifty years after his death. Elsewhere the man sometimes called the "Turkish Lawrence of Arabia" is far less known but his life offers fascinating insights into the traumatic, increasingly violent struggles that ended the Ottoman Empire and ushered in the modern Middle East. Drawing on Esref's private papers for the first time, these pages tell the story of the making of a headstrong "self-sacrificing" officer committed to defending the empire's shrinking borders. Esref took on a string of special assignments for Enver Pasha, the rapidly rising star of the Ottoman military, first in Libya against the Italians, then in the Balkan Wars and World War I, before being captured by the forces of the Arab Revolt and turned over to the British and imprisoned on Malta. Released in 1920, he joined the national resistance movement in Anatolia but fell out with Mustafa Kemal's leadership and switched sides, earning him banishment from the
Turkish Republic at its founding and exile until the 1950s.

Never far from the action or controversy, Esref's dynamic story provides an important counterpoint to the standard narrative of the transition from empire to nation state.


Author: Benjamin C. Fortna
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/15/2016
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780190492441


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About the Author

Benjamin C. Fortna is Professor and Director, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. His research focus is the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic.



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