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The Making of Modern Turkey Seminars: "Turkification" of the Economy in the Early Years of the Republic
The Making of Modern Turkey Seminars, presented by the Museum in association with Boğaziçi University, focus on the transition from Empire to nation-state and the variables of this process. This month, Assist. Prof. Murat Koraltürk will be joining us on Saturday, November 20, at 2:30 p.m., to discuss the attempts to create a national economy during the early Republic.

Among the "national economic" policies of the Second Constitutional Period which were carried on into the early years of the Republic, the "Turkification" of the economy, carried the greatest impact. The first big step taken in this direction was the population exchange between Turkey and Greece which took place in the early Republican period. Koraltürk will consider the significance of this period for Turkish economic history and examine the difficulties encountered before and during the population exchange. The lecture will also address the controversial issues of looting and plundering during the forced population exchange which made headlines in the press at the time and led to heated discussions in parliament.

After graduating from the Department of History at Marmara University, Assist. Prof. Murat Koraltürk earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economic history also from Marmara University. His research interests center on late Ottoman and Turkish economic history. Murat Koraltürk is currently a faculty member of the Department of Economics at Marmara University.

For further information on this free lecture offered by the Ottoman Bank Museum, please call us at: (212) 334 22 70.



A full program of lectures is offered by the Ottoman Bank Museum under the general heading, Voyvoda Street Lectures. This season, a lecture is presented every Wednesday on one of 4 main themes - music and politics, objects and rituals, economic history, and Istanbul. The Making of Modern Turkey Seminars, organized by the Museum in association with Boğaziçi University, are held every third Saturday of the month and focus on the transition from Empire to nation-state and the legal, individual and economic variables of this process.