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Anthropologist, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington, Ph.D. University of Chicago. [info]
major publications
Source: Meeker, “A Nation of Empire”: The Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity” (2002)
"The Germans and Ottomans had been at war with the British, French, Italians, and Russians for a little more than a year. A great Ottoman victory, credited to Mustafa Kemal, had recently been achieved at Gallipoli. But all kinds of disasters were looming in the eastern provinces of Erzurum, Van, and Trabzon. Already, the imperial government had begun to deport the Armenian minority into the Syrian Desert, where many would die without provisions or shelter. Very soon, the Muslim majority would also suffer massive casualties and extraordinary hardship as a consequence of Russian offensives followed by Ottoman counteroffensives" P. 287
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