Reconfiguring the Turkish nation in the 1930s

@article{aaptay2002ReconfiguringTT,
  title={Reconfiguring the Turkish nation in the 1930s},
  author={Soner Çaǧaptay},
  journal={Nationalism and Ethnic Politics},
  year={2002},
  volume={8},
  pages={67 - 82}
}
This article studies Turkish nationalism during the 1930s. In this decade of Kemalism par excellence or High Kemalism, the rise of ethnicist nationalism in Turkey was accompanied by the ascent of the ‘Turkish history thesis’. The article presents an analysis of Turkish nationalism in this era through Ankara's population resettlement policies. Consequently, it examines Turkish nationalism through the interaction between the Kemalist state and the country's minorities. 
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