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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461086903321

Autore

Üngör Ugur Ümit

Titolo

The Making of Modern Turkey [[electronic resource] ] : Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : OUP Oxford, 2012

ISBN

1-280-59468-3

9786613624512

0-19-161908-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Disciplina

956.102

Soggetti

Turkey -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century

Turkey -- History -- 1918-1960

Turkey -- History -- Mehmed V, 1909-1918

Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1909-1918

Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1918-1960

Regions & Countries - Europe

History & Archaeology

Balkan Peninsula

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Nationalism and Population Politics in the Late Ottoman Empire; An introduction to Diyarbekir; The advent of nationalism; The discovery of society and population policies; Violence, victimization, and vengeance; Discussion; 2. Genocide of Christians, 1915-16; War and persecution; 'Burn, destroy, kill': the persecution becomes genocidal; Centre and periphery: widening and narrowing scopes of persecution; Discussion; 3. Deportations of Kurds, 1916-34; 1916: phase one

1925: phase two1934: phase three; Discussion; 4. Culture and Education in the Eastern Provinces; The Young Turk cultural revolution; The nation in the province: culture and education in Diyarbekir; The



boarding school for Kurdish girls; Discussion; 5. The Calm after the Storm: The Politics of Memory; Silencing the violence: the organization of oblivion; Damnatio memoriae: destruction and construction of memory; Memory politics in Diyarbekir; Toponymical changes; Discussion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in the same villages and cities. The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and rise of the nation state violently altered this situation. Nationalist elites intervened in heterogeneous populations they identified as objects of knowledge, management, and change. These often violent processes of state formation destroyed historical regions andemptied multicultural cities, clearing the way for modern nation states. The Making of Modern Turkey highlights how