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Azadi Society

The Impact of the 1925 Uprising in Syria: Elites, Mobilization, and Social…

The Sheikh Said uprising and the Azadi (freedom) Society represented the greatest challenge faced by the young Turkish republic after the abolition of the Caliphate in 1924 and the severing of the last remaining supranational link between the Kurds and the Turks. This severing of the link automatically marginalized the Kurds from the nascent republican […]