Sudanese lumped Egyptian soldiers with their Ottoman Turkish oppressors

Evidence

Yet he knew that many Sudanese, whether following the Mahdï or protesting Egyptian settlements in their southern villages, called the Egyptian soldiers “Turks.” If, as Fawzï Pasha stated repeatedly, Egyptians intended to civilize the Sudan, then under what kind of flag should unity between the regions be forged? What ideals would fuel an ideology of expansionist nationalism for a man like Fawzï Pasha, in the troubled and tumultuous years between the Uräbï revolt and the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium? Clearly this confusion over what was “Egyptian” in the administration of the Sudan pricked at the loyalties of a committed soldier like Fawzï, especially when he and the other Egyptians in the Sudan were being labeled “Turks,” the very group whose corrupt domination of the army and the country had provoked the Uräbï rebellion. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 593

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: The irony that Egyptians - themselves nationalists revolting against ‘Türk’ domination - were called ‘Turks’ by those they colonized parallels the layered hierarchies in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and broader coloniality theory.
• DEFINE: Shows how ‘Turk’ functioned as a catch-all label for foreign/imperial authority irrespective of actual identity.
• SEED: Angle: the instability of colonial identity categories when the colonizer is himself partly colonized - who gets to be ‘us’ vs ‘them’?

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• Egyptian nationalists denied Sudan colonial status by naming it Upper Egypt (similarity 0.85)
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• Sudan meant exile for some Egyptians and promotion for others (similarity 0.85)
• Fawzï’s Sudanese captors paradoxically cemented his colonizer identity (similarity 0.85)
• Sudanese referred to all government authorities as Turks regardless of ethnicity (similarity 0.85)
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• Arabic-speaking Egyptians were considered Turks in the Sudan context (similarity 0.84)
• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan (similarity 0.84)
• Egypt’s colonial rule over Sudan was known to Sudanese as the Turkïya (similarity 0.84)