/region/north_america/the-world-this-week-the-middle-easts-thirty-years-war-30794/ Fact-based, well-reasoned perspectives from around the world Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:53:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /region/north_america/the-world-this-week-the-middle-easts-thirty-years-war-30794/#comment-34674 Wed, 27 May 2015 18:57:46 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=51002#comment-34674 I am surprised at your implication that all was sweetness and light under the Ottoman Empire until the French and British arbitrarily carved up its borders. The one million plus Armenians who died in the Ottoman Empire’s genocide attempt would, I suspect, beg to differ. Far from a system of enlightened devolution of power, The Ottoman Empire had a weak and corrupt centre which allowed provincial elites to assert themselves in a quasi-autonomous fashion.

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