THE RESURRECTION of Ottoman tradition cannot be a solely Turkish task but requires the collaboration of some, if not all, of the other peoples who contributed to this tradition: Arabs, Armenians, Persians, Kurds, Greeks, etc. In 2010, I asked Selim S. Kuru to translate my book The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster (Forthcoming Books, 2009) into Ottoman; he translated some sections of it. In my book What Were You Thinking? (2011) I asked: “Will such a translation to Ottoman contribute to the resurrection of tradition?” In December 2014, in a Turkey ruled by President Recep Tayyip