Assimilation, Security and Geographical Nationalization in Interwar Turkey: The Settlement Law of 1934

This paper discusses the relationship between the geographical dimension of the Turkish government’s population homogenizing measures and security policies in the Settlement Law of 1934. Investigating the division of the country into three zones of settlement by the law in question, the paper demons...

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Tác giả chính: Ülker, Erol
Định dạng: Article ou chapitre numérique
Ngôn ngữ:Anglais
Được phát hành: European journal of Turkish studies 2017
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Truy cập trực tuyến:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Tóm tắt:This paper discusses the relationship between the geographical dimension of the Turkish government’s population homogenizing measures and security policies in the Settlement Law of 1934. Investigating the division of the country into three zones of settlement by the law in question, the paper demonstrates that security concerns became one of the key factors in the governmental policy, which aimed at changing the demographic structure of certain strategic areas in favor of the Muslim-Turkish population.