Exiles and Educators: Turkish-Language Schools and Minority-State Relations in the Muslim Communities of Western Thrace Greece, 1923-1936
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Marissa Smit
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Silay, Kemal
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Indiana University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2017
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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105
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: DeWeese, Devin; Hess, Franklin; Silay, Kemal
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-04202-3
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
M.A.
Discipline of degree
Central Eurasian Studies
Body granting the degree
Indiana University
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2017
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This investigation examines the interactions between Turkish-language schools and the Greek state during the early interwar period, lasting from the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne on the 24th of July, 1923 to the appointment of Ioannis Metaxas as Prime Minister by King George III on the 13th of April, 1936. These schools served a population known as the Muslim Minority of West Thrace, and were subject to a complex range of domestic and international laws. Until now, trends in minority education in West Thrace have been interpreted primarily through the twinned lenses of nationalism and modernizing reformism. By drawing upon under-utilized documents produced by the Ministry of Churches and Public Education and held by the General State Archives in Athens, I argue that neither concept sufficiently explains the complex ways in which the Greek state sought to shape the development of minority schools.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
European history; Islamic Studies; Education history
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Subject Term
Social sciences;Education;Greek education;Minority studies;Muslim schools;Treaty of Lausanne;Turkish studies;West Thrace