Egypt conquered Sudan before it was an independent nation, via Turkish-speaking administrators

Evidence

Egypt conquered the Sudan, for example, long before achieving independence from the Ottoman Empire. Because of this relationship with Istanbul and the fact that the language spoken by Egypt’s administrators and generals was Turkish, the administration of the “Egyptian Sudan” region was known for generations in the Sudan as the Turkïya. So, although the Sudan was conquered by the ruler of Egypt, the “Arabic-speaking Egyptian nation-state with its national army did not then exist.”The contradictions between this political truth and the goals Muhammad `Alï entertained for Egypt and the Sudan make it difficult to situate the source of authority for Egypt’s conquest of the Sudan or to find “a convenient designation for the conquest.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 179

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s stated purpose: the Turkïya naming is a core factual distinction between Egyptian and Sudanese colonial experience. Connects to wider literature on sub-imperialism and Ottoman proxy colonialism.
• QUESTION: The ‘convenient designation for the conquest’ problem — how do scholars now label the Sudan conquest: Ottoman, Egyptian, or something else?