- Title
- The Fate of Armenian and Greek Properties in the Post-First World War Period
- Creator
- Kurt, Ümit
- Relation
- ARC.DE210100430 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE210100430
- Relation
- Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Vol. 26, Issue 2, p. 164-182
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2023.2233363
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2024
- Description
- This article examines the practices of the new parliament formed in Ankara and the fledgling republican regime with a particular focus on laws and regulations as of 1922. It discloses how these ‘legal’ mechanisms were employed to thwart Armenians and Greeks to return home and claim their properties back. Finally, this article explores what types of ‘precautions’ the new Turkish nation-state took to not give confiscated properties to Ottoman Christians, particularly before the forthcoming Lausanne peace negotiations. Turkey could not even tolerate the existence of Armenians and Greeks inside the country, let alone give back their expropriated assets. The state considered abandoned properties as an important source of revenue. However, there was an obligation to return these properties to their owners according to the Vahdettin Regulation of January 1920, which was still valid. Consequently, it was necessary to abrogate this regulation before the commencement of the Lausanne negotiations.
- Subject
- democracy; Ottoman Empire; Turkey; Anatolian; Greek; Lausanne Treaty
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1505328
- Identifier
- uon:55663
- Identifier
- ISSN:1944-8953
- Rights
- © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Language
- eng
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