The Nation’s Imprint: Demographic Engineering and the Change of Toponymes in Republican Turkey
This paper discusses demographic engineering and the renaming of places as closely interrelated policies of nationalising states seeking to increase their hold over contested territories. Such policies comprise destructive –deportation, ethnic cleansing, population exchange– as well as constructive...
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| Language: | English |
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Association pour la Recherche sur le Moyen-Orient
2015-03-01
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| Series: | European Journal of Turkish Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejts/2243 |