Eligur, Banu2020-11-092020-11-0920191353-0194http://hdl.handle.net/11727/5018This article analyses the Turkish nationalist elite's economic and demographic Turkification policies toward the non-Muslim minorities in the 1920s and 1930s, and argues that the nationalist elite pursued ethnocultural nationalism toward the country's non-Muslim citizens, while applying civic-territorial nationalism toward Muslim Turks. The article maintains that the nationalist elite, like the Young Turk regime, aimed at forming a national Turkish Muslim businessmen class at the expense of the non-Muslim minorities by pursuing economic and demographic Turkification policies.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessArticle4611581770004568781000102-s2.0-85031912929