The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950 1st Edition by Ugur Umit Ungor (PDF)

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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 and emptied multicultural cities, clearing the way for modern nation states. The Making of Modern Turkey highlights how the Young Turk regime, from 1913 to 1950, subjected Eastern Turkey to various forms of nationalist population policies aimed at ethnically homogenizing the region and incorporating it in the Turkish nation state. It examines how the regime utilized technologies of social engineering, such as physical destruction, deportation, spatial planning, forced assimilation, and memory politics, to increase ethnic and cultural homogeneity within the nation state. Drawing on secret files and unexamined records, Ugur Umit Ungor demonstrates that concerns of state security, ethnocultural identity, and national purity were behind these policies. The eastern provinces, the heartland of Armenian and Kurdish life, became an epicenter of Young Turk population policies and the theatre of unprecedented levels of mass violence.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “The book will be a bonanza for those who want to acquire a comparative perspective on the development of nationalism in other places. A short review cannot do justice to this rich book. One has to read it oneself and learn.”–CHOICE About the Author Ugur Umit Ungor studied Sociology and History and defended his Ph.D. in 2009 (summa cum laude). He worked at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. His main area of interest is the historical sociology of mass violence and nationalism.

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⭐Displays the truth without reservations. Must be read by all who has connections to Turkey. Excellent work.

⭐Great book that spreads light on Armenian Genocide and other crimes aginst humanity committed by Ottoman Government of Young Turks.It is very important that Armenian, Greek, Assyrian and Bulgarian genocides committed by the government of Ottoman Turkish Empire are studied and condemned by modern Turkish scholars like Ugur Ongur.

⭐It is quite obvious that Turkish Blood money is finding it’s way into American politics! Demand that the United States of America recognise the tragedy of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.

⭐This book shows how the land has its own memory. Excellent work, for all those who want to understand the roots of violence in the Middle East.

⭐What a fascinating read into the end of the Ottoman Empire and the reasons behind the atrocities committed by the Young Turks, namely the Armenian Genocide. Very clearly written and easy for a layperson to follow.

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