I always liked what Etienne Balibar said, sort of: all national-isms are laced
with racism.
Ottoman history before young turkey was anything but nationalistic... But
Turkic nationalist and ottoman histories are confounded to justify imperial
wars on religious grounds. An upon a closer reading of how ordinary people
mingled, it was evident that nationality mattered little. There is not
unfortunately a people's history of the Ottoman empire, but from brief
encounter with Prof Rabkin, a return to the millet system was a better
guarantee for minorities.
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