Description: In 1923 the Turkish government, under its new leader Kemal Ataturk, signed a renegotiated Balkan Wars treaty with the major powers of the day and Greece. This treaty provided for the forced exchange of 1.3 million Christians from Anatolia to Greece, in return for 30,000 Greek Muslims. The mass migration that ensued was a humanitarian catastrophe - of the 1.3 million Christians relocated it is estimated only 150,000 were successfully integrated into the Greek state. Furthermore, because the treaty was ethnicity-blind, tens of thousands of Muslim Greeks (ethnically and linguistically) were forced into Turkey against their will. Both the Greek and Turkish leadership saw this exchange as crucial to the state-strengthening projects both powers were engaged in after the First World War. Here, Emine Bedlek approaches this enormous shift in national thinking through literary texts - addressing the themes of loss, identity, memory and trauma which both populations experienced. The result is a new understanding of the tensions between religious and ethnic identity in modern Turkey.
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EAN: 9781784531270
UPC: 9781784531270
ISBN: 9781784531270
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Book Title: Imagined Communities in Greece and Turkey: Trauma
Item Length: 21.8 cm
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Imagined Communities in Greece and Turkey: Trauma and the Population Exchanges under Atat?Rk
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Transportation, History
Item Height: 216 mm
Item Weight: 395 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Emine Yesim Bedlek
Item Width: 138 mm
Format: Hardcover
