There are books that make you feel, while reading, that you are tracing not only the past but a state of mind. In these texts, history moves beyond a mere chronology. It acquires a voice, a face and at times reveals itself through silence. Published by Ketebe, professor Ali ลรผkrรผ รorukโs "Empire in Collapse: Society and Politics" is one of those works that invites readers to approach the final years of the Ottoman Empire through this very sensibility.
Rather than restricting the story of the empireโs collapse to political actors, battlefronts or treaties, the book widens its lens to include newspaper columns, caricatures, festive days, myths, stories of sacrifice and the voices of the university. As the author notes in the preface, during the long period from the Second Constitutional Era to the National Struggle, the press moved beyond simply reporting eve
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