Ahmet Özcan, “Outlaws, Bureaucrats, and the Gallows: Desertion, Brigandage, and Capital Punishment in Turkey’s Early Republican Period”, (in) Ümit Kurt and Spyros Tsoutsoumpis (eds..), Paramilitary Violence in the Post-Ottoman Borderlands: Pro-state Militias and Nation-Building, 1905-1949 (Dublin: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026). To buy the book, click here. This chapter examines the interwoven histories of desertion, brigandage, and … More “Outlaws, Bureaucrats, and the Gallows”-Bloomsbury Publishing