Turkish Population Engineering

The slogan "Turkey belongs to the Turks" was being adopted by all levels of the state day by day, and the policies and practices of ignoring those who were not one's self continued to gain momentum day by day. The 1908 Revolution had two basic tasks in this context: One was to solve the national issue, the other was to solve the problems of the Ottoman Palace oligarchy that impoverished the people. and to put an end to his oppressive policy.

The Turkist-centralist route of the Unionists was, in a way, the program of liquidation of the 1908 Revolution. With the January 1913 coup, the Committee of Union and Progress based itself on the political economy of Turkish nationalism and created a road map for itself by using the state power of the Ottoman Empire. What were these factors that formed the integrity of Turkish nationalism?

In a multi-religious and multi-national empire like the Ottoman Empire, the most effective regulation policy of social life was settlement: Divide, divide, rule!

What was the impact on the population of the Union and Progress government knowing who lived where and for how long?

After the 1908 revolution, the first official census of the Ottoman Empire was carried out in 1914. The settlement and exile policy was redefined with the Settlement Law in 1934, after the 1927 Census. The political economy of Turkish Population Engineering, which was the project of Turkification of the demographic and economic structure, was the liquidation of those who were Sunni-Islamic in religion and non-Turkish in nationality. How were Armenians, Greeks, Jews and Kurds affected by these laws and practices?

Within the scope of the Turkish Population Engineering Project, Onaran focuses on the period 1920-1940, although he touches upon the period after 1914. Nevzat Onaran's latest work, Turkish Population Engineering, from the practice of destruction, massacre and assimilation of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Jews, Kurds, Alevi-Kizilbas since the 1910s, continues to bring to light the political economy of the liquidation and the internal warfare of the state with the documents it presents.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 747

Size: 16 x 24

First Print Year: 2017

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Media Type: Paperback