A Life of Esref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent
by
Benjamin C. Fortna
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Esref Kusçubasi remains controversial in Turkey over fifty years after his death. Elsewhere the man sometimes called the "Turkish Lawrence of Arabia" is far less known but his life offers fascinating insights into the traumatic, increasingly violent struggles that ended the Ottoman Empire...