Location
McCune Room, HSSB 6020
In August 1915, the paths of Ali Cenani, an Ottoman deputy, Ahmet Faik, the former deputy governor of Baghdad, and Mehmet Yasin, a military dispatch officer, crossed in a particular town, Aintab, modern-day Gaziantep — situated on the boundaries of Cilicia (today known as the southern part of Anatolia) and Syria, near both the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Alexandretta. But what was the common thread that brought these three men from different social, political, economic, and family backgrounds together, educated in various schools in Aintab? This lecture by Ümit Kurt (History, University of Newcastle, New South Wales) tries to answer this question.