Minorities and Nationalism in Turkish Law
In: Cultural Diversity and Law
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Ottoman Empire and Minorities -- 1.1 The Millet System -- 1.2 'Organisational Diversity' as a Source of Plurality in the Empire -- 1.3 Emergence of New Concepts in the Ottoman Legal System -- 1.3.1 The Ideal of Egalitarianism -- 1.3.2 Secularization of the Law -- 1.3.3 From Corporate Identities to Individual Citizen: Ottomanism and the Transformation of Identity -- 1.3.4 Emerging Ethno-Religious Boundaries of the Ottoman State and Nation -- 1.4 The İTC Era and the End of Pluralism -- 1.4.1 Linguistic Nationalism -- 1.4.2 Economic Nationalism -- 1.4.3 Settlement Policies -- 2 Transition to the Turkish Nation-State -- 2.1 Muslim and Non-Muslim Minorities in the Discourse of the Independence War -- 2.1.1 Non-Muslims -- 2.1.2 Non-Turkish Muslims -- 2.1.3. Alevis, Nestorians, Chaldeans, Assyrians, Yezidis -- 2.2 The Lausanne Peace Conference and Treaty 1922–23 -- 2.2.1 Population Exchange -- 2.2.2 The Return of Armenian Refugees -- 2.2.3 The Muslim Minorities' Position at Lausanne -- 2.2.4 The Kurds and the Mosul Issue -- 2.2.5 The Lausanne Treaty -- 3 Management of Diversity in the Turkish Nation-State, 1923–60 -- 3.1 Cultural Nationalism: 'Turkification from the Cultural Perspective' -- 3.1.1 Language Policies -- 3.1.2 Reconstruction of the 'Turk' through History -- 3.1.3 Elimination of Traditional, Religious and Social Structures -- 3.1.4 End of Legal Plurality -- 3.2 Turkification of the Economy -- 3.2.1 Economic Turkification through the Law -- 3.2.2 Turkification of Economy through Extra-Legal Means -- 3.3 Assimilation and Turkification Policies -- 3.3.1 Turkification by Resettlement -- 3.3.2 The Inspectorate Generals (Umumi Müfettişlikler) -- 4 The Myth of the Civic State and Turkish Ethnie in Law