Turks Across Empires: Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands, 1856-1914 - Paperbackby James H. Meyer (Author) Turks Across Empires tells the story of the pan Turkists, Muslim activists from Russia who gained international notoriety during the Young Turk era of Ottoman history. Yusuf Akcura, Ismail Gasprinskii and Ahmet Agaoglu are today remembered as the forefathers of Turkish nationalism, but in the decade preceding the First World War they were known among bureaucrats, journalists and government officials in Russia and Europe as