Minorities in Turkey

Minorities in Turkey is a primary issue since the establishment of Turkish Republic. Turkey is a country which is a piece of a collapsed empire. It is to say that there were several different ethnic and religious groups inside the Ottoman empire. The balance between citizens was the millet system in Ottoman empire, and it rejected ethnic differences among the Muslim population, also other millets are recognized by the power such as Jewish or Armenians. The process of establishing a new state concerns the integrity of Turkish Republic in accordance with the minorities. The progression of building a nation inside the country has improved itself with takes step to homogenize the nation via refusing the multiple character of the Anatolian population. Turkish Republic had to recognize minority rights while the treaty of Lausanne by the power of European countries after the victory of the War of Independence. Minorities in Turkey are divided into two groups that are religious minorities and ethnic minorities. In the Ottoman Empire, there were such groups that stayed in welfare, also they could be even a grand vizier. However, in the new state, the nation became much more important. According to the Treaty of Lausanne, three historical non-Muslim groups were accepted as a minority: Armenians, Jewish and Greeks. The process of building a nation state was become complicated and there were some measurements that were taken by the state to avoid diversity inside the country. www.kureselsiyaset.org/uluslararasi-iliskiler/minorities-...

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