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The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and Kurdistan, as he governs Thrace; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers which he has at Brusa and Smyrna.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and Kurdistan, as he governs Thrace; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke uses the example of the Ottoman Empire to illustrate the difficulties of governing diverse territories effectively.
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