{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6aade2397aa361c612c3dd8d/6af1004a071ec4ae39e68fbc?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"How a Family-Tree Squabble Turned into an International Brawl? (1/3)","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6aade2397aa361c612c3dd8d/1794179134246-015d67c0-6cf7-48c8-bd50-08fbed29caf9.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>A Turkish influencer tried to recruit a young Uyghur woman into Pan-Turkism online. She replied, “I’m Chinese.” What followed was an internet brawl that dragged in Greeks, Japanese, Iranians, and somehow even Indians.</p><p>So what is Pan-Turkism, and how did a 19th-century dream of a “Great Turan” stretching from Anatolia to the Altai end up as the ideology everyone loves to mock?</p><p>In this episode, we trace its story:</p><ul><li>How Tatar intellectuals in Tsarist Russia first invented it</li><li>How the Young Turks turned it into a war program, and the disaster at Sarıkamış</li><li>Why Atatürk shelved it, and how Turkey resisted Nazi temptation in WWII</li><li>Why the newly independent Central Asian states wanted nothing to do with it</li><li>And how it lives on today, from the Grey Wolves to Erdoğan’s Organization of Turkic States</li></ul><p>Grab a snack and join us for another Fun History Hour.</p>","author_name":"shan liu"}