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Guest: Ryan Gingeras, historian & professor  We've been wanting to dive into Turkish history for awhile now, since so many stories we cover lead back to the Ottomans or Turkey. Historian Ryan Gingeras walks us through the brutal, humiliating & violent last years of the Ottoman Empire. In part 1, we begin in 1908 with the rise of the Committee for Union & Progress (CUP), otherwise known as the Young Turks, through the humiliations of the Italo-Turkic War and Balkan Wars, and end on the eve of World War One. *Books & articles by Ryan Gingeras cited: -Fall of the Sultanate: The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1908–1922  -The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire  -"The History That Happened: Setting the Record Straight on the Armenian Genocide" by Ryan Gingeras, War on the Rocks, Dec 4 2019   *Relevant RWN Episodes: -The Battle of Lepanto (EP #111)-Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12, with Annibale (EP #257)-Turkey in WWI (EP #155)-Turkish Invasion of Cyprus, Pt 1 (EP #337) Total time: 1:33:53 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here