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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Main Author: Erol Ülker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association pour la Recherche sur le Moyen-Orient 2008-12-01
Series:European Journal of Turkish Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejts/2123