The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in the same villages and cities. The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and rise of the nation state violently
Introduction ; 1. Nationalism and population politics in the late Ottoman Empire ; 2. Genocide of Christians, 1915-16 ; 3. Deportations of Kurds, 1916-1934 ; 4. Culture and education in the eastern provinces ; 5. The calm after the storm: the politics of