National development and minority rights in the Turkish Republic

The Treaty of Lausanne, signed in July 1923, marked the end of the Ottoman Empire. It regulates Turkey's borders with its European neighbors that are still valid today and had serious consequences for the situation of minorities on Turkish territory. As a result, the Völkerbund project was also buried as a “solution to conflict” through exchange of populations. The symposium discusses this historical development up to the current treatment of minorities in the Republic of Turkey.

The event takes place in cooperation with the International Institute for Nationality Law and Regionalism Munich and the South Tyrolean Ethnic Group Institute in Bolzano.

Registrations at: anmeldung@lepsiushaus-potsdam.de

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programme

Friday, October 20, 2023

18:00 — 18:30 Welcome

Roy Knocke (Potsdam), Meinolf Arens (Munich)

6:30 p.m. — 7:30 p.m. Introductory speech

Adamantios Th. Skordos (Leipzig): Community exchange instead of minority protection. The Lausanne Convention of 1923 from an international and remembrance-cultural perspective

Saturday, October 21, 2023

10:00 a.m. — 12:00 p.m.

Roy Knocke (Potsdam): History and present of Armenians in Turkey

Berna Pekesen (Duisburg-Essen): The expulsion of Turkish Jews from Thrace in 1934

Kazım Gündogan (Cologne): The Alevis in Dersim 1937/38

12:00 — 13:30 Lunch and coffee break

1:30 p.m. — 3:00 p.m.

Ioannis Zelepos (Bochum): The Greek-Turkish population exchange as part of the Lausanne Peace Treaty 1923

Ioannis Zelepos (Bochum): Greek-Turkish minority issues from 1923 to today

15:00 — 15:30 Coffee break

3:30pm — 5:00pm

Christoph Giesel (Jena): Multiethnicity among the Sunnis of Kemalist Turkey in
20th century. Ethnocultural and political aspects as well as comparative references to the present

5:00 p.m.

Conclusion

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