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Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volume 31, Issue 2, 2008

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The politics of population in a nation-building process: emigration of non-Muslims from Turkey
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The politics of population in a nation-building process: emigration of non-Muslims from Turkey

DOI:
10.1080/01419870701491937
Ahmet Içduygu*, Şule Toktas* & B. Ali Soner*

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 twentieth century, Turkey's non-Muslim minority populations have undergone a mass emigration experience in which thousands of their numbers have migrated to various countries around the globe. While in the 1920s the population of non-Muslims in the country was close to 3 per cent of the total, today it has dropped to less than two per thousand. This article analyses the emigration of non-Muslim people from Turkey and relates this movement to the wider context of nation-building in the country.

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  • Published online: 16 Jan 2008

Author notes

  • Ahmet Içduygu -

    AHMET IÇDUYGU is Professor in the Department of International Relations, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey

  • Şule Toktas -

    ŞULE TOKTAŞ is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations, Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey

  • B. Ali Soner -

    B. ALI SONER is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communications, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey

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