Turkification Research Articles

Ethnic Turkification and homogenization from Ottoman empire to the Turkish republic: critical investigations into the historiography of non-Muslims in Turkey

The spirit of the laws: the plunder of wealth in the Armenian genocide, by Taner Akcam and Umit Kurt, New York, Berghahn Books, 2015, 220 pp., $85.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1782386230.The exterminati...

Atatürk and the Turkish Terminology Reform: The (Re-)turkification of Geography Terms

Atatürk and the Turkish Terminology Reform: The (Re-)turkification of Geography Terms

AYHAN AKTAR, Varlik Vergisi: Ve Turklestirme Politikarlari (Istanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2000). Pp. 244

This volume hit the bookstore shelves when the film Salkim Hanim's Necklace sparked a great deal of controversy in the Turkish press and drew criticism from ultra-nationalist circles. The film was about the tragedy of the Capital Levy, the most drastic Turkification policy implemented during World War II. It was thanks to the film that younger generations of Turks learned about these events. The debate was further inflamed when the film was shown on state television.