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Back to EpisodesEdhem Eldem on Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II between fantasy and reality
Season 1
Episode 32
Published 8 years ago
Description
Professor Edhem Eldem on "A Transnational History of the Attempt on Abdülhamid II" (Palgrave Macmillan), co-edited with Houssine Alloul and Henk de Smaele. The book explores a deadly assassination attempt targeting the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul in 1905, and appears at a time when Abdülhamid II is the subject of a growing popular obsession among religious conservatives in Turkey.
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