Moving populations: the foundations of diaspora in the early Republic of Turkey

Christopher Houston, Joost Jongerden

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Abstract

The 19th century in Europe has been dubbed the age of revolution. Its 20th century can be consequentially analysed as a post-revolutionary age of forced population movements. Turkey has not been immune from such processes. Indeed, it has been a place of massive population dislocation, given its intense engagement for more than a century with revolutionary politics. This chapter investigates three core issues to understand these forced population movements in the Republic of Turkey: (1) the foundational political practices of the Kemalist social movement-state; (2) the core processes of population displacement initiated by the revolutionary politics of this government; and (3) the social responses and resistances that live on in the activities and discourses of Turkey’s diasporas today. It concludes that contemporary Turkey lives in a mood of paranoia – a paranoia in which revolutionary governments of different types exist in constant fear of those they have made into non-citizens.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRoutledge handbook of Turkey's diasporas
EditorsAyca Arkilic, Banu Senay
Place of PublicationLondon ; New York
PublisherRoutledge, Taylor and Francis Group
Chapter2
Pages19-33
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)9781040089613, 9781003269021
ISBN (Print)9781032215709, 9781032215761
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025

Publication series

NameRoutledge Handbooks
PublisherRoutledge

Keywords

  • Turkish Politics
  • Diaspora Studies
  • Kemalism
  • Turkish Nationalism
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Forced Displacement
  • Urban space

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