The Muslim Emigration in Western Anatolia
With the Balkan Wars, the whole region was introduced to a new concept: Ethnic cleansing. States looking to homogenize their population did this in two ways: either by treaty or by force. Population statistics thus became one political instrument and then started the “ethnic engineering”. Among Anat...
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Centre d'Études Balkaniques
2012-01-01
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| description | With the Balkan Wars, the whole region was introduced to a new concept: Ethnic cleansing. States looking to homogenize their population did this in two ways: either by treaty or by force. Population statistics thus became one political instrument and then started the “ethnic engineering”. Among Anatolian Christians, Ottoman Greeks were the first target of the CUP who feared losing the “last remaining territory”. Talat Pasha, Minister of the Interior, talked to German diplomats about ridding the country of “internal enemies”. After expulsions, terrorism and deportations between 1913 and 1918, on both sides of the Aegean, almost half the population of 17.5 million changed places. The era’s worst legacy is the idea that states have a right to exchange or deport their populations like property. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-98813a2db041450eb4ca000609ad4e6d2022-12-21T23:34:22ZengCentre d'Études BalkaniquesCahiers Balkaniques0290-74022261-41842012-01-014010.4000/ceb.922The Muslim Emigration in Western AnatoliaElçin MacarWith the Balkan Wars, the whole region was introduced to a new concept: Ethnic cleansing. States looking to homogenize their population did this in two ways: either by treaty or by force. Population statistics thus became one political instrument and then started the “ethnic engineering”. Among Anatolian Christians, Ottoman Greeks were the first target of the CUP who feared losing the “last remaining territory”. Talat Pasha, Minister of the Interior, talked to German diplomats about ridding the country of “internal enemies”. After expulsions, terrorism and deportations between 1913 and 1918, on both sides of the Aegean, almost half the population of 17.5 million changed places. The era’s worst legacy is the idea that states have a right to exchange or deport their populations like property.http://journals.openedition.org/ceb/922ethnic cleansingmuhacirsTalat Pacha (1874-1921)Young Turksrefugeesdemographic statistics |
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| title | The Muslim Emigration in Western Anatolia |
| title_full | The Muslim Emigration in Western Anatolia |
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| title_short | The Muslim Emigration in Western Anatolia |
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| topic | ethnic cleansing muhacirs Talat Pacha (1874-1921) Young Turks refugees demographic statistics |
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