Refugees, Locals and “The” State

Property Compensation in the Province of Izmir Following the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange of 1923

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6157367
AutoresEllinor Morack (0000-0002-6798-0803, autor correspondente), Morack Morack
Ano2015
Volume2
Fascículo1
Páginas147-147
Data de publicação2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2376-0702 • E-ISSN: 2376-0699
EditoraIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/jottturstuass.2.1.147
OpenAlexW3141451575
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2

This article studies the application of laws regulating the settlement and compensation of migrants who came to Turkey from Greece in the course of the population exchange. By using petitions and administrative documents, it discusses the questions of legality and legitimacy with regard to two problems: First, the status of exchangees as a group privileged by law, and second, the bureaucratic procedure through which they were given temporary property rights (tefviz). The article shows that laws can by no means be taken to be identical with their application, and that various notions of legality and legitimacy were at play, both in different state administrations and among those affected by their policies. It thus makes an important contribution to a better understanding of the relationship between law, state and society in early Republican Turkey

Bureaucracy · Business · Compensation (psychology · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Population · Principle of legality · Property (philosophy · Refugee · Settlement (finance · Sociology · State (computer science · Turkish · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society