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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