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5 - Industrialization and Assimilation in Mid-twentieth-Century Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2022

Elliott D. Green
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
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Here I examine in more detail my first case study, namely mid-twentieth-century Turkey. The presence of high-quality census data from Turkey between 1935 and 1965 allows me to replicate my statistical analysis from the previous chapter at the provincial level to show that urbanization is correlated with increasing levels of people identifying as Turkish; moreover, this relationship is robust to the inclusion of a number of different controls and the use of sub-samples. Qualitative examination of evidence from Turkey suggests that this process was a consequence of economic structural change and incentives provided by the state, such that incentivized assimilation took place in urban Turkey but not in the countryside. Indeed, I show that a lack of industrialization in Kurdistan was responsible for the lack of Turkish identification in the region, despite both violent and non-violent attempts by the Turkish state at assimilating its Kurdish population.

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Industrialization and Assimilation
Understanding Ethnic Change in the Modern World
, pp. 83 - 107
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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