books.google.com.tr - 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 altered this situation. Nationalist elites intervened...http://books.google.com.tr/books/about/The_Making_of_Modern_Turkey_Nation_and_S.html?id=r90CfaNzYXMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Making of Modern Turkey:Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950
