Crossing the borders in reality and in press: the case of the newspapers Yeni Adım and Yarın in the late 1920s

Contrary to what the title of this article may eventually lead to understand, this paper is mainly about the management of public opinion by the editors of two newspapers published in interwar Thrace, Yeni Adım and Yarın. More precisely, this paper focuses on their use of the news that spread by mid...

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Autor principal: Bonos, Yannis
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Publicado: European journal of Turkish studies 2013
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:ejts_4413 https://doi.org/10.4000/ejts.4413 urn:doi:10.4000/ejts.4413 en https://journals.openedition.org/ejts/4413 2013-04-26T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/fo1k https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Crossing the borders in reality and in press: the case of the newspapers Yeni Adım and Yarın in the late 1920s European journal of Turkish studies Éditions de l’EHESS info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1773-0546 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ejts Bonos, Yannis Ottoman Empire demographic engineering Bulgaria Greek Thrace Muslims emigration non-exchangeables Empire ottoman ingénierie démographique musulmans Bulgarie émigration Thrace de Grèce non-échangeables Contrary to what the title of this article may eventually lead to understand, this paper is mainly about the management of public opinion by the editors of two newspapers published in interwar Thrace, Yeni Adım and Yarın. More precisely, this paper focuses on their use of the news that spread by mid-October 1928 among the ‘non-exchangeable’ inhabitants in Greek Thrace, regarding the emigration of their fellows to Turkish Thrace and the reactions of the Turkish and Greek authorities to that small scale migration. The emigration of ‘non-exchangeables’ from Greek Thrace has already been considered as the main reaction of that people who had been exempted, in early 1923, from the compulsory exchange of Greek and Turkish populations, to state policies that aimed to settle ‘exchangeables’ in Thrace. While offering a historical account of the Greek demographic engineering in two Ottoman provinces which had formed a Bulgarian province between 1913-19, this paper describes how ‘non-exchangeables’ debated the emigration to Turkey, which has been curiously neglected as an issue of public debate by current scholarship on that minority. The paper also dwells on the transformation of the public sphere of ‘non-exchangeables’ following the establishment of a Turkish Consulate in Komotini and the spread of Turkish-language newspapers from Xanthi and Komotini. My focus then tries to identify the ways people tried to pass the Greek-Turkish border in autumn 1928, the ways the Turkish and Greek authorities tried to stop that ‘leak’ of ‘non-exchangeables’ and to reassign that status those who had tried to leave it, and, at last, the ways Yeni Adım and Yarın editorial teams spoke about these particular events in the name and place of their audiences, the ‘Western Thrace Turks’ and the ‘Muslims of Western Thrace’ respectively. Since this investigation rests on information and opinions exchanged through newspapers, the present paper necessarily addresses the need to move from the traditional approach of the ‘state minority policy’ towards questions of ‘government by consent’.
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topic Ottoman Empire
demographic engineering
Bulgaria
Greek Thrace
Muslims
emigration
non-exchangeables
Empire ottoman
ingénierie démographique
musulmans
Bulgarie
émigration
Thrace de Grèce
non-échangeables
spellingShingle Ottoman Empire
demographic engineering
Bulgaria
Greek Thrace
Muslims
emigration
non-exchangeables
Empire ottoman
ingénierie démographique
musulmans
Bulgarie
émigration
Thrace de Grèce
non-échangeables
Bonos, Yannis
Crossing the borders in reality and in press: the case of the newspapers Yeni Adım and Yarın in the late 1920s
description Contrary to what the title of this article may eventually lead to understand, this paper is mainly about the management of public opinion by the editors of two newspapers published in interwar Thrace, Yeni Adım and Yarın. More precisely, this paper focuses on their use of the news that spread by mid-October 1928 among the ‘non-exchangeable’ inhabitants in Greek Thrace, regarding the emigration of their fellows to Turkish Thrace and the reactions of the Turkish and Greek authorities to that small scale migration. The emigration of ‘non-exchangeables’ from Greek Thrace has already been considered as the main reaction of that people who had been exempted, in early 1923, from the compulsory exchange of Greek and Turkish populations, to state policies that aimed to settle ‘exchangeables’ in Thrace. While offering a historical account of the Greek demographic engineering in two Ottoman provinces which had formed a Bulgarian province between 1913-19, this paper describes how ‘non-exchangeables’ debated the emigration to Turkey, which has been curiously neglected as an issue of public debate by current scholarship on that minority. The paper also dwells on the transformation of the public sphere of ‘non-exchangeables’ following the establishment of a Turkish Consulate in Komotini and the spread of Turkish-language newspapers from Xanthi and Komotini. My focus then tries to identify the ways people tried to pass the Greek-Turkish border in autumn 1928, the ways the Turkish and Greek authorities tried to stop that ‘leak’ of ‘non-exchangeables’ and to reassign that status those who had tried to leave it, and, at last, the ways Yeni Adım and Yarın editorial teams spoke about these particular events in the name and place of their audiences, the ‘Western Thrace Turks’ and the ‘Muslims of Western Thrace’ respectively. Since this investigation rests on information and opinions exchanged through newspapers, the present paper necessarily addresses the need to move from the traditional approach of the ‘state minority policy’ towards questions of ‘government by consent’.
author Bonos, Yannis
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title Crossing the borders in reality and in press: the case of the newspapers Yeni Adım and Yarın in the late 1920s
title_short Crossing the borders in reality and in press: the case of the newspapers Yeni Adım and Yarın in the late 1920s
title_full Crossing the borders in reality and in press: the case of the newspapers Yeni Adım and Yarın in the late 1920s
title_fullStr Crossing the borders in reality and in press: the case of the newspapers Yeni Adım and Yarın in the late 1920s
title_full_unstemmed Crossing the borders in reality and in press: the case of the newspapers Yeni Adım and Yarın in the late 1920s
title_sort crossing the borders in reality and in press: the case of the newspapers yeni adım and yarın in the late 1920s
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