Latif Tas
This article reopens the discussion about the Ottoman millet practice. The best known stereotypes claim that the socalled ‘millet system’ only offered rights to nonMuslim religious minorities. This article fundamentally challenges this approach. It focuses on how the millet practice was applied to the treatment of Kurds under the early and late Ottoman Empire, and discusses how millet practices were destroyed by the disease of nationalism. The article then considers how practices like those applied by the Ottomans might act as a useful example for modern nation states facing conflicts with national, religious, ethnic or migrant minorities. It suggests that practices like the mil let might be beneficial both if minorities gain territorial recognition and also for those minorities who live in nonterritorial communities.[1]


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