The Bleeding Heart of Muslim Europe
…snian wives and mothers. (It’s a distortion of history to call the empire “Turkish”—its army and bureaucracy was heavily Eastern European.) Millions of Turks are descendants of Balkan refugees who retreated with the Ottoman Empire. Though they found refuge in Turkey, soon after Ataturk began his top-down nation building, suppressing their Eastern European identities in favor of a uniform Turkishness; whose artifice is revealed in telling details….
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