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  • In pursuit of homogeneity: the Lausanne Conference, minorities and the Turkish nation

  • Yeşim Bayar
  • Journal:
    Nationalities Papers / Volume 42 / Issue 1 / January 2014
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 November 2018, pp. 108-125
    Print publication:
    January 2014

  • Following World War I, the Allied Powers signed Minority Treaties with a number of Central and Eastern European states. These treaties delineated the status of religious, ethnic and linguistic minorities in their respective countries. Turkey would be one of the last states that sat down to the negotiation table with the Allied Powers. In the Turkish case, the Lausanne Treaty would be the defining document which set out a series of rights and freedoms for the non-Muslim minorities in the newly created nation. The present article explores how and why the non-Muslim minorities were situated in the fringes of the new nation. In doing so, the article highlights the content of the discussions in the Lausanne Conference and in the Turkish Grand National Assembly with an emphasis on the position of the Turkish political elite.