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The Making of Modern Turkey - Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950 (Paperback)
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The Making of Modern Turkey - Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950 (Paperback)
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The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a
multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and
Arabs lived together in the same villages and cities. The
disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and rise of the nation state
violently altered this situation. Nationalist elites intervened in
heterogeneous populations they identified as objects of knowledge,
management, and change. These often violent processes of state
formation destroyed historical regions and emptied multicultural
cities, clearing the way for modern nation states. The Making of
Modern Turkey highlights how the Young Turk regime, from 1913 to
1950, subjected Eastern Turkey to various forms of nationalist
population policies aimed at ethnically homogenizing the region and
incorporating it in the Turkish nation state. It examines how the
regime utilized technologies of social engineering, such as
physical destruction, deportation, spatial planning, forced
assimilation, and memory politics, to increase ethnic and cultural
homogeneity within the nation state. Drawing on secret files and
unexamined records, Ugur UEmit UEngoer demonstrates that concerns
of state security, ethnocultural identity, and national purity were
behind these policies. The eastern provinces, the heartland of
Armenian and Kurdish life, became an epicenter of Young Turk
population policies and the theatre of unprecedented levels of mass
violence.
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