STATE AND SOCIETY INTERACTION AT THE INTERSECTION OF AGRICULTURE, SETTLEMENT AND POLITICS IN IZMIR, 1924-1939

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2023-3-28

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Having been designed as two staged research, this dissertation basically explores the societal elements during the formative years of the Turkish Republic. Departing from the idea that societal aspects and localities are crucial elements of history; and the fact that these elements have been analyzed insufficiently in the historiography of the early years of the Turkish Republic, this study focuses on Izmir and its hinterland to strengthen this part of historiography. The first stage of the research is to discover the local themes which reflect the societal realities of the determined period in the region. Utilizing from broad local resources such as local newspapers, this research points out three main local and societal themes as the most comprehensive and frequently recurrent elements to have a more nuanced analyze of the formative years of the Turkish Republic in Izmir. These themes are agricultural segment, the settlement related issues and the local politics. The second stage of the research is to understand and determine a path to define the interaction between the newly founded Turkish state and society by treating these above-mentioned themes as the common grounds of these iv two actors’ interactions. In this regard, this research underlines the crucial place of space-specific societal aspects rather than existing and identificatory themes which are unsighted to local differentiations to analyze the Republican state and society. Also, for the case of Izmir the findings of this research suggest that material realities of the everyday life which breed unstable and day-to-day positions are one of the main components in the interaction between the state and society.

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Izmir, agricultural segment, settlement, local politics, early Republican Turkey.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/102761

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E. ÖZÇERİ ALYURT, “STATE AND SOCIETY INTERACTION AT THE INTERSECTION OF AGRICULTURE, SETTLEMENT AND POLITICS IN IZMIR, 1924-1939,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2023.