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 language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Routledge Handbook of Turkey’s Diasporas |
| Editors | Ayca Arkilic , Banu Senay |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Chapter | 2 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003269021 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2024 |