Editor

Mehmet Polatel

Language

English

1st edition - February 2025
268 page

This volume, consisting of the proceedings from the "Minority Rights in Centennial of the Republic" Conference, examines the historical and conceptual transformation of the minority concept in the context of Turkey, from the Treaty of Lausanne to the present. The 17 studies presented at the conference, organized by the Hrant Dink Foundation on November 17-18, 2023, assess the rights of minorities, the challenges they encounter, and the international repercussions in this field, offering new perspectives from various disciplines.

"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
English
Editor
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
Sena 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