Minority Rights in the Continental of the Republic

Editor

Mehmet Polatel

Language

English

1st edition - February 2025
268 page
45 TL

“In recent years there has also been a dramatic increase of hate speech in social media targeting mainly, overwhelmingly minorities, and an increase in violent attacks and hate crimes against minorities in Europe. Social media platforms have become propaganda megaphones, and now amplify intolerance and prejudice to spew propaganda of hate and racism, almost immediately reaching huge numbers, thousands and even millions, of people and causing real harm, literally leading to individuals around the world being vilified, pointed out, lined up, even killed because they belong to dehumanised groups of others, who are usually, overwhelmingly, minorities.”
— Fernand De Varennes, from the keynote speech

Book Title: Minority Rights in the Centennial of the Republic

ISBN: 978-625-97168-2-4
Price: 438,75 TL
Pages: 340
Width: 150 mm
Height: 240 mm
Weight: 450 gr
Printing: 1st edition - February 2025
Language: Türkçe
Editör: Mehmet Polatel
Translators: Simon Charles Popay
Proofreading Simon Charles Popay,Zeynep Karababa
Index: Zeynep Karababa
Design Advisor: BEK Tasarım ve Danışmanlık
Graphic Application: Selin Uluer
Print: Sefa Ofset Ambalaj Sanayi ve Ticaret

This book is a collection of papers delivered at the “Minority Rights in the Centennial of the Republic” conference, which took place at the Hrant Dink Foundation’s Havak Conference Hall in the Anarad Hghutyun Building on November 17–18, 2023. The conference was organized by the Hrant Dink Foundation, with support from the European Union and the Embassy of France in Ankara.

Keynote Speech
- Minority Rights are Human Rights: What This Means at the UN, The Council of Europe, and the EU - and for Minorities
  Fernand De Varennes
Part I: Conceptual Framework and Protection of Minorities
- The Evolution of the Concept of Minority
  Olgun Akbulut
- Constituting Minorities: International Steps and National Responses
  Yeşim Bayar
Part II: Minorities and the Treaty of Lausanne
- Lausanne, Non-Muslims and Kurds
  Baskın Oran
Part III: Identity and Recognition
- How the Syriacs/Assyrians Navigated in the New Turkish Republic
  David Gaunt
- The Laz People and Laz Language in the First Five Years of the Republican Press
  İrfan Çağatay Aleksiva
- The Armenian Community in Greece Through the Greek State’s Minority Policies and Practices
  Levon Leonidas Ntilsizian
Part IV: Cultural Heritage, Memory, and Property
- Snapshots from the Smyrna-Urla Peninsula: Reusing the Abandoned Properties of the Greek Orthodox Community
  Melis Cankara
- Reading the Rural Heritage of Armenians in Hizan, Bitlis through Collective Memory
  Özge Kurban
- The (Un)Satisfactory Position of the European Court of Human Rights on the Restitution of Property Belonging to Religious Minorities in Turkey
  Ümit Kılınç
- The Temporality of Non-Muslim Property in Turkey: Istanbul and the Antakya Region
  Miray Çakıroğlu
Part V: Identity, Belonging, and Exclusion
- An Expelled and Unwanted Minority: The Assyrians of Hakkâri
  Nicholas Al-Jeloo
- I Remember Apelasis Like It Was Yesterday
  Elif Kevser Özer
- The Sense of Belonging of Jews in Turkey: Affects and Encounters
  Cem Reyna
Part VI: Religion, Faith, and Minorities
- The Yezidi Issue in Turkey
  Victoria Alakelova
- Liturgy, Ecclesiology, and Minority Rights
  Christopher Sheklian
- The Alevis’ Struggle for Their Religious Rights in Turkey
  Angelo Francesco Carlucci
Index