The Ottoman Empire underwent structural genocide comparable to India’s under direct British rule.

Evidence

That settler colonialism is a graded quantity of the same colonialist quality also implies that colonialism has as many subtle forms of presence in the colonies as not so subtle ones. The most classic example is the Ottoman Empire, the Sick Man of Europe. Formally speaking, the Ottoman Empire was, by common parlance, a sovereign entity, and was not subjected to what is otherwise commonly regarded as colonialism; yet, as I have shown in detail earlier and elsewhere, it was subjected to various pressures that forced it to undertake a structural transformation (to invoke Wolfe’s structural genocide) that was as aggressive and expedited as that which India underwent under direct British rule. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 427

Categorization

• DEFINE: Extends Wolfe’s ‘structural genocide’ concept to the Ottoman case.
• XREF: Connects to Wolfe’s settler-colonialism scholarship and structural genocide theory.