Sudan’s pre-independence conquest by Egypt was Turkish in identity, not Arabic-Egyptian

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.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 179

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds directly into the reader’s Egypt-vs-Sudan comparative coloniality project: the ethnic identity of the conqueror shapes how subjugation is remembered.
• DEFINE: Explains why Sudan knew the era as the Turkïya — the Turkish-speaking identity of the occupying administration.