Ethnocultural nationalism and Turkey’s non-Muslim minorities during the early republican period |
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Authors: | Banu Eligür |
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Institution: | Political Science and International Relations Department, Ba?kent University, Ankara, Turkey |
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Abstract: | This article analyses the Turkish nationalist elite’s economic and demographic Turkification policies toward the non-Muslim minorities in the 1920s and 1930s, and argues that the nationalist elite pursued ethnocultural nationalism toward the country’s non-Muslim citizens, while applying civic-territorial nationalism toward Muslim Turks. The article maintains that the nationalist elite, like the Young Turk regime, aimed at forming a national Turkish Muslim businessmen class at the expense of the non-Muslim minorities by pursuing economic and demographic Turkification policies. |
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