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Between Central State and Local Society. The People’s
Houses Institution and the Domestication of Reform in
Turkey (1932 - 1951)
PROEFSCHRIF
ter verkrijging van
de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden,
op gezag van Rector Magnificus prof. mr. P.F. van der Heijden,
volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties
te verdedigen op woensdag 18 november 2009
klokke 13:45 uur
door
Alexandros Lamprou
geboren te Athene
In 1976
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PROMOTIECOMMISSIE
Promotor: Prof. dr. Erik-Jan Zürcher
Overige Leden:
Prof. dr. François Georgeon (CNRS, Paris)
Prof. dr. Lex Heerma van Voss (International Institute of social
History, Amsterdam)
Prof. dr. Turaj Atabaki
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1
The People’s House
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PART ONE
Human Geography of Provincial People’s Houses
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Chapter 2
Halkevi in local societies: Kayseri and Balıkesir
Chapter 3
Halkevi members: political ambition, segregation and alienation
105
PART TWO
Local politics:
Political Geography of Provincial People’s
137
67
Chapter 4
Halkevi within local politics:
the chairman of the Balıkesir Halkevi
Chapter 5
Dramas of Conflict
163
PART THREE
‘Gamblers’, ‘Theatre Girls’ and ‘Villagists’:
Kemalist Policies consumed
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139
Chapter 6
People’s Houses vs. Coffeehouses
Chapter 7
Women on the Halkevi Stage
Chapter 8
Halkevi in the countryside: Village excursions
Conclusions
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Appendix
293
Bibliography
297
Summary in Dutch
309
Curriculum Vitae
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First of all, I would like to thank the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece
(IKY) for providing the financial means to conduct my doctoral research. I
would also like to thank the Administration and personnel of the State Archives
of the Turkish Republic in Ankara where the bulk of the research for this
dissertation took place. Their assistance and professionalism deserve to be
mentioned here. I would also like to thank the personnel of the library of the
Turkish National Assembly and the Turkish National library in Ankara, the
Beyazit and Atatürk libraries in Istanbul, as well as the libraries of the Leiden
University and the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
I also feel the obligation and pleasure to thank my friends and colleagues in the
Netherlands, Turkey and Greece. It was their support, hospitality and
friendship that made the writing of this dissertation possible:
Ulus Baker (1960 - 2006),
øbrahim Oluklu, Yiannis Bonos, Özgür Gökmen, Yiannis Moutsis Süha Ünsal,
Aydın Ayhan Özhan Önder, Nikos Sigalas, Umut Azak, Demet Varlı øsmail
Hakkı Kadı, Evúen Yeúert Akçay, Tryfon Babilis, Leo Moiras, Nikos
Christofis, Sertaç Erten, Ekrem Balıbek (Yeni Haber Gazetesi, Balıkesir), Anıl
Çeçen, Mustafa Durak, Faruk Tuncay, Tansu Açık, Koutsoukos Vasilis, Özge
Çelikaslan, Zeki Özalay, Yakup ùahan, Mehmet ùahin, Yakup Özkül, Bülent
Varlık, Tolis Papaioannou.
Yiannis Bonos, Özgür Gökmen, Yiannis Moutsis read and commented on some
draft chapters. Aydın Ayhan provided me with rare newspaper clips from local
newspapers of Balıkesir. Demet Varlı translated the summary to Dutch.
Finally, I would like to thank my friends Georgios Loukas, Lazaros Kazias,
and Dimitris Kouklakis for providing me with the necessary financial
assistance to cover the expenses of the PhD defense and ceremony.
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