“At once ride for Mosul. The Kurds are devouring one another like wolves. This must be stopped” -Written order by Tahsin Pasha, Ottoman Principal Palace Secretary to Ebubekir Hazim Bey, the newly appointed Vali to Mosul, 1898. By 1897, the feud between various Kurdish tribes of the Ottoman vilayet of Mosul had reached a troubling ...
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