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Are Turkish leaders ill-informed about their own history?

Many question whether Ankara has aspirations in Iraq linked to a misunderstanding of Turkish history.

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Arab men drink tea and smoke water pipes in a coffee house in Mosul, Iraq, in 1914. At the time, the city was part of the Ottoman Empire's Mosul Vilayet. — Library of Congress

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