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  • 1 - The Price of the Republic for the Peasants

  • from Part I - Everyday Politics of Peasants
  • Murat Metinsoy, Istanbul Üniversitesi
  • Book:
    The Power of the People
    Published online:
    24 December 2021
    Print publication:
    11 November 2021, pp 21-43

  • Summary

    This chapter presents the government’s economic policies and the oppression of peasants by state agents and large landowners. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the building of the modern Turkish republic was financed largely through taxes and monopoly revenues extracted from the agricultural economy. Turkey’s economy was largely based on agriculture, and accordingly, the new state relied heavily on rural resources. Oppression and coercion by state agents such as tax collectors and gendarmes and local dominants such as large landowners or village headmen accompanied the economic exploitation of peasants. This chapter gives a detailed picture of the exploitation and domination mechanisms that afflicted smallholders and the rural poor. It also sheds light on the impact of the Great Depression on Anatolian peasants.