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Shiny Things and Sovereign Legalities: Expropriation of Dynastic Property in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic

Karamursel, Ceyda

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This article probes the legal expropriation of dynastic property in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic. Focused on the period from Abdülhamid II's deposal in 1909 to the decade immediately following the abolition of the caliphate in 1924, it takes parliamentary debates as entry points for exploring how this legislative process redefined the sovereign's relationship with property. Although this process was initially limited only to Yıldız Palace, the debates that surrounded it heuristically helped to shape a new understanding of public ownership of property that was put to use in other contexts in the years to come, most notably during and after World War I and the Armenian genocide, before establishing itself as the foundation of a new ownership regime with the republican appropriation and reuse of property two decades later.

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Karamursel, C. (2019). Shiny Things and Sovereign Legalities: Expropriation of Dynastic Property in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 51(3), 445-463. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743819000382

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 30, 2019
Online Publication Date Jun 3, 2019
Publication Date Aug 1, 2019
Deposit Date Feb 22, 2019
Publicly Available Date Feb 22, 2019
Journal International Journal of Middle East Studies
Print ISSN 0020-7438
Electronic ISSN 1471-6380
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 51
Issue 3
Pages 445-463
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743819000382

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© Cambridge University Press 2019. This is the version of the article accepted for publication in International Journal of Middle East Studies published by Cambridge University Press: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743819000382





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