The term Turk lost precise ethnic meaning and later labeled Anglo-Egyptian rulers

Evidence

Cf. Fawzï Pasha, Kitäb al-südän bayna aydï Gordon wa Kitchener, 2:61, 142, 260. 53. Ibid., 1:95. 54. Bedri, The Memoirs of Babikr Bedri, p. 24, n. 1.The note explains that in the Mahdist Sudan the term Turk had no “precise ethnic significance” and was later transferred to the Anglo-Egyptian elite. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1144

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes how colonial categories become detached from ethnic reality and get reassigned as new rulers arrive.
• DEFINE: Clarifies that ‘Turk’ functioned as a shifting marker of alien rulership, not ethnicity.