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Малцинствената политика на ранната Tурска република (20-те и 30-те години на ХХ в.)
Policy towards Minorities in the Early Turkish Republic (1920s and 1930s)

Author(s): Kalina Peeva
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Social Sciences, Cultural history, Governance, Sociology, Comparative history, Diplomatic history, Economic history, Ethnohistory, History of ideas, Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Theology and Religion, Social development, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Migration Studies, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Sociology of Religion, Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: minority policy of the Republic of Turkey; nationalism; Christian minorities; Islamic linguistic; ethnic and religious minorities

Summary/Abstract: This article highlights the politics of the early Turkish governments towards various ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities living on the territory of the Republic of Turkey in the light of the principle of nationalism, which became one of the fundamental principles of the new Turkish state. Based on the achievements of modern historiography and the archive documents in the records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Religions kept at the Central State Archives –Sofia, it makes a review of the typical practices aimed at assimilation of the Muslim linguistic, ethnic and denominational minorities, on one hand, and, on the other hand, at the exclusion of non-Muslims from the concept of the “Turkish nation” and the adoption of discriminatory, and even repressive practices, encouraging their emigration from the Republic of Turkey.

  • Issue Year: 30/2022
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 392-408
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Bulgarian