The last Ottomans [Elektronisk resurs] The Muslim minority of Greece 1940-1949 / Kevin Featherstone [et al.].

• Introduction The Study of the Muslim Community of Western Thrace in Context On the Path to War Belomorie Strategies for Survival In Between Two Wars Aaekic Ile A-rs Arasinda (Between a Rock and a Hard Place) Parallel Universes Conclusion.

• A new study of the international and local politics surrounding the Muslim minority of Western Thrace (Greece) in the 1940s, based on previously unseen archival material. Addresses the minority's complex identity, its relations with other communities in the area, the international diplomacy of WWII and strategic considerations of the Cold War. -- Why, when faced with a brutal occupation and then a bloody civil war, did the Muslims on Greece's border with Turkey remain passive? The Lausanne Treaty of 1923 had recognized them as a vulnerable minority and there were a number of international and local factors that might have led to ethnic conflict. This first in-depth historical study of the minority explores the puzzle of the absence of conflict, the complex patterns of identity of the minority, and the strategic relevance of this community to the international relations of a region long seen as a powder-keg. It is based on extensive Greek, Turkish and Bulgarian archive materials, many of which have not been analyzed before, as well as the official documents of the British and US governments and personal interviews with many of those who lived through these events. The Last Ottomans traces a fascinating, untold story and tells it through an inter-disciplinary lens, raising important questions of relevance not only to the 1940s but also to the inherited assumptions and images of today. 

Ämnesord

Muslims  -- History -- 20th century -- Greece -- Thrace, Western. (LCSH)

Society.  (eflch)

Greece  -- Foreign relations -- Turkey. (LCSH)

Turkey  -- Foreign relations -- Greece. (LCSH)

Thrace, Western (Greece)  -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Greece  -- History -- Occupation, 1941-1944. (LCSH)

Greece  -- History -- Civil War, 1944-1949. (LCSH)

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