Kurds

Kurds Book Description: In the book titled Kurds: Historical and Social Investigation, published by the Ottoman Muhacirin Directorate-i Umumisi (Ottoman General Directorate of Immigrant Affairs) in 1918 as the first publication of the state about the Kurds, the author was Doctor Friç and the translator from German to Turkish was Habil Adem. Later investigations showed that the author and translator of the book, whose real name is Naci İsmail (Pelister), was an Ottoman National Police officer and a Unionist of Albanian origin. This first Turkish version of the book, which offers clues about the intellectual structure of the period in which it was written, beyond the history of the Kurds, is presented to the reader with the evaluation articles of Suavi Aydın and İsmail Beşikçi. "What makes this book important is that the political determinations claimed to have been written by a German are presented as scientific facts, and these constitute the basic framework of the Unionists - and later the official ideology of the Republic." -Fuat Dündar-(Historian) (From the Promotional Bulletin)Number of Pages: 236Print Year: 2014Language: TurkishPublisher: History Foundation Yurt Publications