ISBN:
9780415384582
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (284 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History
Parallel Title:
Print version Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey : Who is a Turk?
DDC:
305.8/009561
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book examines Turkish and Balkan nationalism, arguing that the legacy of the Ottomon millet system which divided the Ottoman population into religious compartments called millets, shaped Turkey's understanding of nationalism during the interwar period
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Islam, Secularism, andNationalism in ModernTurkey:Who is a Turk?; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on names; Notes on personal names, translations, and archival sources; Prologue; Introduction: Turkish nationalism today; 1 From the Muslim millet to the Turkish nation: The Ottoman legacy; From ethnicities to nations; The fall of the Ottoman Empire: from the Ottoman Muslims to the Turkish nation; The rise of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) and the fight for Anatolia; 2 Secularism, Kemalist nationalism, Turkishness, and the minorities in the 1920s
Description / Table of Contents:
Anatolian Muslims rally to liberate TurkeySecularization: the ascent of nominal Islam as a marker of Turkishness; A dilemma for Kemalism: Turkish citizenship vs Turkish nationality; Kurds in the 1920s: the role of religion in assimilation; Jews during the 1920s: the role of the Turkish language in assimilation; Christians in the 1920s: an overview; Greeks in the 1920s; Arab Christians, Jacobites, and other Eastern Christians during the 1920s; Armenians during the 1920s: conflict and confrontation; Conclusion; 3 Kemalism par excellence in the 1930s: The rise of Turkish nationalism
Description / Table of Contents:
Menemen rebellion, Axri uprising, and SCF experience: the troublesome 1930The advent of High Kemalism; CHP's 1931 Congress; CHP's 1935 Congress and the six principles of Kemalism; The Inspectorates-General; First Turkish History Congress and the Turkish History Thesis; The rise of ethnic definition of the Turkish nation; The ramifications of the Turkish History Thesis; First Turkish Language Congress and the purification of the Turkish language; Atatürk's death and the end of a period of High Kemalism; The ethno-racial definition of the Turkish nation vs Turkey's ethno-religious diversity
Description / Table of Contents:
Citizen, speak Turkish and adopt a Turkish last name!Conclusion; 4 Who is a Turk?: Kemalist citizenship policies; Citizenship as a political tool in interwar Europe: an overview; Turkish censuses under High Kemalism; The privileged position of the Turks among the Turkish citizens; Denaturalization cases; Naturalization cases; Race and ethnicity in Turkish citizenship policies in the 1930s; Conclusion; 5 Defining the boundaries of Turkishness: Kemalist immigration andresettlement policies; The nature of immigration to Turkey in the 1920s and the 1930s; The Resettlement Law of 1926
Description / Table of Contents:
The resettlement policies toward the Kurds in the 1920sThe Resettlement Law of 1934; Race and ethnicity in Turkish resettlement policies in the 1930s; Armenians in the High Kemalist resettlement acts; The immigration matrix; Balkan and Caucasus Muslims in the High Kemalist resettlement policies; Hierarchy in immigration to Turkey; The spirit of High Kemalist immigration and resettlement policies; 6 Secularized Islam defines Turkishness: Kurds and other Muslims as Turks; Why were the Kurds the biggest challenge to Kemalism?; The Kadro movement and the Kurds: "Are the Kurds a nation?"
Description / Table of Contents:
Kemalism and the Kurds: 1920s into the 1930s
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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