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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Association pour la Recherche sur le Moyen-Orient
2008-12-01
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| author | Erol Ülker |
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| description | 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 demonstrates that security concerns became one of the key factors in the governmental policy, which aimed at changing the demographic structure of certain strategic areas in favor of the Muslim-Turkish population. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f2458d5166594814acd6282e3a5459292022-12-21T22:26:18ZengAssociation pour la Recherche sur le Moyen-OrientEuropean Journal of Turkish Studies1773-05462008-12-01710.4000/ejts.2123Assimilation, Security and Geographical Nationalization in Interwar Turkey: The Settlement Law of 1934Erol ÜlkerThis 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 demonstrates that security concerns became one of the key factors in the governmental policy, which aimed at changing the demographic structure of certain strategic areas in favor of the Muslim-Turkish population.http://journals.openedition.org/ejts/2123settlementnationalismsecurityinterwar TurkeyTurkificationdemography |
| spellingShingle | Erol Ülker Assimilation, Security and Geographical Nationalization in Interwar Turkey: The Settlement Law of 1934 European Journal of Turkish Studies settlement nationalism security interwar Turkey Turkification demography |
| title | Assimilation, Security and Geographical Nationalization in Interwar Turkey: The Settlement Law of 1934 |
| title_full | Assimilation, Security and Geographical Nationalization in Interwar Turkey: The Settlement Law of 1934 |
| title_fullStr | Assimilation, Security and Geographical Nationalization in Interwar Turkey: The Settlement Law of 1934 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assimilation, Security and Geographical Nationalization in Interwar Turkey: The Settlement Law of 1934 |
| title_short | Assimilation, Security and Geographical Nationalization in Interwar Turkey: The Settlement Law of 1934 |
| title_sort | assimilation security and geographical nationalization in interwar turkey the settlement law of 1934 |
| topic | settlement nationalism security interwar Turkey Turkification demography |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/ejts/2123 |
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