ORIGINAL ARTICLE
The League of Nations, Minorities, and Post-Imperial Turkey
Yeşim Bayar,
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Yeşim Bayar
Yeşim Bayar is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Lawrence University, New York. She may be contacted at ybayar@stlawu.edu.
The author would like to thank John A. Hall, Berna Turam, and the anonymous reviewers for the Journal of Historical Sociology for their comments and suggestions. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2019 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism.
Search for more papers by this authorYeşim Bayar,
Corresponding Author
Yeşim Bayar
Yeşim Bayar is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Lawrence University, New York. She may be contacted at ybayar@stlawu.edu.
The author would like to thank John A. Hall, Berna Turam, and the anonymous reviewers for the Journal of Historical Sociology for their comments and suggestions. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2019 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism.
Search for more papers by this authorFirst published: 03 June 2020
Yeşim Bayar is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Lawrence University, New York. She may be contacted at ybayar@stlawu.edu.
The author would like to thank John A. Hall, Berna Turam, and the anonymous reviewers for the Journal of Historical Sociology for their comments and suggestions. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2019 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism.
Abstract
The Minority Treaties that were signed at the end of First World War were not only instrumental in establishing the status of minorities in their respective countries but also significant in terms of their impact on nation-building processes. Through focusing on the post-Ottoman lands, and specifically on Turkey, this paper examines the tension between the goals of the Allied Powers and the League of Nations, and those of the nationalist political elites in the newly-created national states.
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