Gürkan Anar, Damla 2024. Blessing, Patricia. Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 284 Pages. Kadim, p. 195. In this ...
As is clear in today’s Syria, competing claims were lodged by Arabs (Sunni and Shia), Kurds, as well as Turkomen and Armenians (at least those still alive after 1915) to the same plots of land.
As in many parts of the world, history is very much a political weapon in the Eastern Mediterranean. It is difficult to assess conflicts in Syria (and the British/Western interest) for this reason, ...
BRUSSELS – “It’s finally up to the people of Syria to shape their future,” Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan claimed on Dec 8, hours after the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was ...