Arabic-speaking Egyptians were considered Turks in the Sudan context

Evidence

It is important to note that Fawzï Pasha always uses the word misrïyyün (Egyptians) when speaking of the administration in the Sudan. His text shows, however, that the Sudanese, particularly those from abïd tribes (non-Muslim tribes), also refer to all people in government uniforms or with military authority as Atrak (Turks). … The note explains that in the Mahdist Sudan the term Turk had no “precise ethnic significance” and was later transferred to the Anglo-Egyptian elite. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1143 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Egyptian attitudes about Sudan derived from Ottoman and older Islamic cultures — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 107; Egypt’s colonial rule over Sudan was known to Sudanese as the Turkïya; Sudanese labeled Egyptian soldiers as Turks, stinging Egyptian national pride (+7 more)

Related

• Sudanese labeled Egyptian soldiers as Turks, stinging Egyptian national pride (similarity 0.96)
• The Sudan saw even Arabic-speaking Egyptians as foreign Turks. (similarity 0.94)
• Sudanese labeled any uniformed authority figure a Turk regardless of ethnicity (similarity 0.93)
• Sudanese called all colonial administrators Turks regardless of nationality (similarity 0.93)
• Egypt’s colonial rule over Sudan was known to Sudanese as the Turkïya (similarity 0.90)
• Sudanese referred to all government authorities as Turks regardless of ethnicity (similarity 0.90)
• Sudanese memory of the Turkïya obscures Arabic-speaking Egyptians’ real role in that colonial administration (similarity 0.87)
• Sudan’s pre-independence conquest by Egypt was Turkish in identity, not Arabic-Egyptian (similarity 0.86)
• Sudanese perceived Egyptian soldiers as ‘Turks,’ destabilizing Egypt’s civilizing ideology (similarity 0.86)
• Sudanese lumped Egyptian soldiers with their Ottoman Turkish oppressors (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian attitudes about Sudan derived from Ottoman and older Islamic cultures (similarity 0.85)
• The term Turk lost precise ethnic meaning and later labeled Anglo-Egyptian rulers (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian Sudanese colony was administered increasingly by Arabic-speaking native Egyptians (similarity 0.85)
• In Mahdist Sudan the label Turk carried no precise ethnic meaning (similarity 0.85)
• The term Turk shifted from denoting ethnicity to denoting any ruling authority in Sudan. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• The Sudan saw even Arabic-speaking Egyptians as foreign Turks. #corroborates (0.95)
• Sudanese called all colonial administrators Turks regardless of nationality #corroborates (0.85) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1143
• The term Turk shifted from denoting ethnicity to denoting any ruling authority in Sudan. #expands (0.80)
• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan #expands (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527