CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Kockun, Elmas |
|---|---|
| Title | Stateless Roma Minorities in the Last Years of the Ottoman Empire and The First Years of the Turkish Republic: Perspectives and Practices |
| Summary | In the 19th century and later, the Ottoman government began to lose its administrative power, and the nationalist revolts that started in the Balkans and Anatolia led to the enactment of some democratic laws in the last period of the Ottoman Empire. Despite these laws, the change of attitude could not prevent the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Undemocratic practices were initiated against the Roma minority in the Republic of Turkey. This thesis shows that the reasons for this contradiction were in the historic conditions and explains the reason for the different government approach of these two different states towards the Roma minority. The reason for this different understanding of administration lies in the Turkish nationalism supported by the Republican era administrators. This research will compare how stateless Romani minorities were conceptualized and addressed in the Ottoman empire and the Turkish republican system. It is the result of the experiences of the first years of the Turkish Republic and the last years of the Ottoman Empire. My main research question asks that reason(s) explain the different governmental approaches of these two different states towards the Roma minority. To examine this question, my comparative analysis of the practices of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey is based on the method of document analysis and a conceptual analysis of terms such as 'Roma minority' and 'state'. As a first step, I will examine laws and documents found in historical archives dating from the last period of the Ottoman Empire and the first years of the Turkish Republic. These documents are from Ottoman Publications - T.C. I will then interpret discriminatory laws and parliamentary reports from the Ankara Presidency State Archives Presidency/State Archives. Another example is the articles written by the famous Turkish nationalist poet, writer, teacher, historian Nihal Atsız for the Roma community. He is a person who defended Turkisness in the Republican era and was taken as an example by the nationalist people in Turkey, and his thoughts are supported. |
| Supervisor | Balikic Lucija |
| Department | Romani Studies Ps |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/kockun_elmas.pdf |
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