Training the saviours: Educational transformation and elitism in the Ottoman Empire 1876-1918

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1999
Yalçınkaya, Alper

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A. Yalçınkaya, “ Training the saviours: Educational transformation and elitism in the Ottoman Empire 1876-1918,” Middle East Technical University, 1999.