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Benjamin C. Fortna Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, xiv + 247 pages.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 July 2015
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- New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 45: Special Issue on Turkishness and Its Discontents , Fall 2011 , pp. 247 - 252
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