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Caner Yelbaşı is an Assistant Professor at the Mardin Artuklu University. He holds a MA and PhD degree from the Departments of Middle Eastern Studies and History in SOAS, University of London. His research interests are the Late Ottoman Period, Russian Colonialism in the North Caucasus, Circassian Studies, Nation and Nation-state ideology, Para-militarism, and Modern Turkish History. His articles have appeared in Middle Eastern Studies and the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. He is the author of “The Circassians of Turkey War, Violence and Nationalism from the Ottomans to Atatürk” (I.B. TAURIS, 2019). In his book, he focused on the political and paramilitary activities of the Circassian community in Turkey in the very late Ottoman and early Republican periods. Currently, he is working on Russian colonialism in the North Caucasus in the 19th century and its impact on the Black Sea Region.