Sudanese perceived Egyptian soldiers as ‘Turks,’ destabilizing Egypt’s civilizing ideology

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

• XREF: Connects to the broader historiography on how Egyptians of this era were functionally heirs of Ottoman/Turkish rule in Sudan, and to discussions of ‘internal colonialism’ in African colonial studies.
• QUESTION: Does the label ‘Turk’ persist or shift in Sudanese anti-colonial discourse under the actual Anglo-Egyptian Condominium?