POLS 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Turkish Nationalism, Arab Nationalism, Military Science
3 Aug 2017
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Four factors for the rise of turkish and arab nationalism. Arab nationalism: factions within the army create cells which are arab and consider themselves not ottoman, not turkish but arab. Establishment of educational institutions in the middle east by missionaries: large numbers of foreign missionaries arrive in what is now syria, lebanon and. British intrigues in the middle east during wwi: all intrigues played a role in arab nationalism. If western europe beats germany then the empire will be gone: already figuring out how to carve up the empire when they win. Hussein-mcmahon correspondence (1915: british ambassador hussein in cairo contacts someone arguing that he will help the. British in their war effort against the ottomans and will rebel against the empire, leading it from within the empire and in return he wants the promise of an arab state including.
