Ethnic Groups at ‘Critical Junctures’: The Laz vs. Kurds

2012/02/24 by Zeki Sarıgil · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Ethnic group #Law #Political science #Religion and Society Interactions #Social Policy and Reform Studies #Turkey's Politics and Society

paper · doi:10.1080/00263206.2011.652778

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Abstract

The Turkish Republic emerged onto the world stage as a secular and centralized nation state in the early 1920s from the remnants of the multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-lingual Ottoman Empir...

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• Laz people [wikipedia]

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