HIST 240 Lecture 3: Lecture sept 20th
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Fatwa legal decision and opinions: religious position only highest religious positions can give this. Husyan) entered damascus 1918: british forces entered palestine, lebanon and then met the. Arab forces in 1918 in damascus: signaling end of. Ottoman rule: levant (eastern part of mediterranean) french and. Faysal in 1925 as king or iraq: frustration by the arabs and muslim leaders, coined in the consciousness of the people that they cannot trust the western powers. French: the treaty of sevres (1920, promised armenians to have their own state. Armenia": kurks also to have their own state, the privileges called capitulations" that the. Kurks and armenians: turkish leader, father of all turks = ataturk, born to poor family in salonika, grad from war college in istanbul, participated in cup activites against the kalif and. Sultan (ottoman: fought during ww1 in many battles, most importantly gallipoli, decisive battle, french and brits failed to capture the straights (not until they captured.