The politics of population in a nation-building process: emigration of non-Muslims from Turkey
@article{Iduygu2008ThePO, title={The politics of population in a nation-building process: emigration of non-Muslims from Turkey}, author={Ahmet Içduygu and Sule Toktas and B. Ali Soner}, journal={Ethnic and Racial Studies}, year={2008}, volume={31}, pages={358 - 389} }
Abstract Within the politics of nationalism and nation-building, the emigration of ethnic and religious minorities, whether voluntary or involuntary, appears to be a commonly occurring practice. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the early twentieth century, modern Turkey still carried the legacy of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious diversity in which its Armenian, Greek and Jewish communities had official minority status based upon the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. However, throughout the…
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