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The Fate of the Kurds
… rooted in ancient ethnic hatreds, but in modern ideas of nationalism as they emerged in the late 19 th and early 20 … of which were intended to counter the rise of competing nationalisms in the empire. The state sought to tighten its … and authoritarian wing of the Ottoman Committee of Union and Progress—CUP, the main Young Turk party—came to …