Religious Minorities In Turkey

Author : Mehmet Bardakci,Annette Freyberg-Inan,Christoph Giesel,Olaf Leisse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137270269

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Religious Minorities in Turkey by Mehmet Bardakci,Annette Freyberg-Inan,Christoph Giesel,Olaf Leisse Pdf

This book considers the key issue of Turkey’s treatment of minorities in relation to its complex paths of both European integration and domestic and international reorientation. The expectations of Turkey’s EU and other international counterparts, as well as important domestic demands, have pushed Turkey to broaden the rights of religious and other minorities. More recently a turn towards autocratic government is rolling back some earlier achievements. This book shows how these broader processes affect the lives of three important religious groups in Turkey: the Alevi as a large Muslim community and the Christian communities of Armenians and Syriacs. Drawing on a wealth of original data and extensive fieldwork, the authors compare and explain improvements, set-backs, and lingering concerns for Turkey’s religious minorities and identify important challenges for Turkey’s future democratic development and European path. The book will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of minority politics, contemporary Turkish politics, and religion and politics.

Author : Ramazan Kilinç,Ramazan Kılınç
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108476942

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Alien Citizens by Ramazan Kilinç,Ramazan Kılınç Pdf

Examines how international context and domestic politics interact in producing state policies toward religious minorities in Turkey and France.

Author : Wilhelm Baum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Armenia
ISBN : UCSC:32106019487229

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The Christian Minorities in Turkey by Wilhelm Baum Pdf

Author : Samim Akgönül
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004249721

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The Minority Concept in the Turkish Context by Samim Akgönül Pdf

The Minority Concept in the Turkish Context discusses the concept of minority in the specific Turkish context by using three different case studies: religious minorities in Turkey, Muslims of Greece and Turks in France.

Author : Benny Morris,Dror Ze’evi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674916456

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The Thirty-Year Genocide by Benny Morris,Dror Ze’evi Pdf

From 1894 to 1924 three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region’s Christian minorities. Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi’s impeccably researched account is the first to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia’s Christian population and create a pure Muslim nation.

Author : Baskın Oran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1626378614

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Minorities and Minority Rights in Turkey by Baskın Oran Pdf

Author : Maurizio Geri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319755748

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Ethnic Minorities in Democratizing Muslim Countries by Maurizio Geri Pdf

This book explores the ways in which democratizing Muslim countries treat their ethnic minorities’ requests of inclusiveness and autonomy. The author examines the results of two important cases—the securitization of Kurds in Turkey and the “autonomization” (a new concept coined by the study) of Acehnese in Indonesia—through multiple hypotheses: the elites’ power interest, the international factors, the institutions and history of the state, and the ontological security of the country. By examining states with ethnic diversity and very little religious diversity, the research controls for the effect of religious conflict on minority inclusion, and so allows expanded generalizations and comparisons. In non-Muslim majority countries, and in so called “mature democracies,” the problem of the inclusion of old or new ethnic minorities is also crucial for the sustainability of the “never-ending” democratization processes.

Author : Ayhan Aktar
Publisher : Transnational Press London
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781801350433

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Nationalism and Non-Muslim Minorities in Turkey, 1915 - 1950 by Ayhan Aktar Pdf

Ayhan Aktar has been working on anti-minority policies in modern Turkey since 1991. In the Ottoman Empire’s final decade (in 1906), non-Muslims constituted 20% of the population; by 1927, they were reduced to 2.5% and, nowadays, they make up less than 0.02% of the population of Modern Turkey. Armenians were subjected to deportations (1915), Greeks were ‘exchanged’ (1922–1924) and Jews were forced to migrate abroad (after 1945). Like many other nation-states in the Near East, Turkey has been able to homogenize its population on religious grounds. This book is a collection of Aktar's articles about this transformation. Aktar criticises nationalist historiographies and argues "For instance, a scholar conducting research on the Jewish community during the republican period could easily come to the conclusion that only Jews were discriminated against by the Turkish state. However, this is only partially true! All non-Muslim minorities were discriminated against and their stories cannot be understood unless the Turkish state and its policies are placed at centre stage. Utilizing diplomatic correspondence in the British and US National Archives has enabled me to understand anti-minority policies as a whole and to treat the subject within a totality." This book will interest scholars and students of nationalism, minority studies and Turkish history and politics. CONTENTS Foreword Chapter 1. Debating the Armenian Massacres in the Last Ottoman Parliament, November – December 1918 Chapter 2. Organizing The Deportations and Massacres: Ottoman Bureaucracy and the Cup, 1915 – 1918 Chapter 3. Homogenizing the Nation, Turkifying the Economy: The Turkish Experience of Population Exchange Reconsidered Chapter 4. Conversion of a ‘Country’ into a ‘Fatherland’: The Case of Turkification Examined, 1923–1934 Chapter 5. “Turkification” Policies in the Early Republican Era Chapter 6. “Tax Me to the End of My Life!” Anatomy of Anti-Minority Tax Legislation, (1942 - 3) Chapter 7. Turkish Attitudes vis à vis The Zionist Project by Ayhan Aktar and Soli Özel Chapter 8. Economic Nationalism in Turkey: The Formative Years, 1912 – 1925

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124096178

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A Quest for Equality by Anonim Pdf

Though Turkey is a land of vast ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity - home not only to Turks, Kurds and Armenians, but also, among others, Alevis, Ezidis, Assyrians, Laz, Caferis, Roma, Rum, Caucasians and Jews, the history of the state is one of severe repression of minorities in the name of nationalism. This report sets current law and practice in Turkey against the backdrop of equivalent international standards on linguistic rights of minorities; freedom of religion, thought and conscience; freedom of expression; freedom of assembly and association; political participation; property rights and anti-discrimination.

Author : Benny Morris,Dror Ze’evi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674240087

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The Thirty-Year Genocide by Benny Morris,Dror Ze’evi Pdf

From 1894 to 1924 three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region’s Christian minorities. Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi’s impeccably researched account is the first to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia’s Christian population and create a pure Muslim nation.

Author : Eduard Alan Bulut
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527507500

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Minorities in Constitution Making in Turkey by Eduard Alan Bulut Pdf

This book addresses the constitutional journey of religious minorities in modern Turkey, specifically the Lausanne minorities, who have been both coded and blacklisted in the official records for decades. It focuses on the non-Muslim citizens who have maintained their lives with confidential codes without knowing that these codes have been instrumentally used for strategic purposes. In spite of such discriminatory practices, they are on the way to a new democratic and civil constitution. It is significant to note that this will be their first constitutional experience in post-republic history. The first book to document the role of religious minorities in constitution making in modern Turkey, it lists recent discussions and findings on this controversial process. One of the important findings of this study is that government-led initiatives endeavouring to be inclusive have had the opposite effect.

Author : Derya Bayir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317095804

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Minorities and Nationalism in Turkish Law by Derya Bayir Pdf

Examining the on-going dilemma of the management of diversity in Turkey from a historical and legal perspective, this book argues that the state’s failure to accommodate ethno-religious diversity is attributable to the founding philosophy of Turkish nationalism and its heavy penetration into the socio-political and legal fibre of the country. It examines the articulation and influence of the founding principle in law and in the higher courts’ jurisprudence in relation to the concepts of nation, citizenship, and minorities. In so doing, it adopts a sceptical approach to the claim that Turkey has a civic nationalist state, not least on the grounds that the legal system is generously littered by references to the Turkish ethnie and to Sunni Islam. Also arguing that the nationalist stance of the Turkish state and legal system has created a legal discourse which is at odds with the justification of minority protection given in international law, this book demonstrates that a reconstruction of the founding philosophy of the state and the legal system is necessary, without which any solution to the dilemmas of managing diversity would be inadequate. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this timely book will interest those engaged in the fields of Middle Eastern, Islamic, Ottoman and Turkish studies, as well as those working on human rights and international law and nationalism.

Author : Laurent Mignon
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644695814

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Uncoupling Language and Religion by Laurent Mignon Pdf

This book is an invitation to rethink our understanding of Turkish literature as a tale of two “others.” The first part of the book examines the contributions of non-Muslim authors, the “others” of modern Turkey, to the development of Turkish literature during the late Ottoman and early republican period, focusing on the works of largely forgotten authors. The second part discusses Turkey as the “other” of the West and the way authors writing in Turkish challenged orientalist representations. Thus this book prepares the ground for a history of literature which uncouples language and religion and recreates the spaces of dialogue and exchange that have existed in late Ottoman Turkey between members of various ethno-religious communities.

Author : Lois Whitman
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0929692705

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Destroying Ethnic Identity by Lois Whitman Pdf

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Author : Lejla Voloder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781838607968

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A Muslim Minority in Turkey by Lejla Voloder Pdf

Although Turkey is a secular state, it is often characterised as a Muslim country. In her latest book, Lejla Voloder provides an engaging and revealing study of a Bosniak community in Turkey, one of the Muslim minorities actually recognised by the state in Turkey. Under what circumstances have they resettled to Turkey? How do they embrace Islam? How does one live as a Bosniak, a Turkish citizen, a mother, a father, a member of a household, and as one guided by Islam? The first book based on fieldwork to detail the lives of members of the Bosnian and Bosniak diaspora in Turkey, A Muslim Minority in Turkey makes a unique contribution to the study of Muslim minority groups in Turkey and the Middle East.