Turkey’s Forgotten Political Opposition: The Demise of Kadirbeyoğlu Zeki Bey, 1919–1927


This article encourages a reevaluation of the role of Anatolian Muslim merchants and notability in the Turkish nationalist movement after World War I. It offers the political career of Gümüşhane merchant Kadirbeyoğlu Zeki Bey (1884–1952) as one step toward such a reevaluation. Zeki is known to histo...

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Main Author: Balistreri, Alexander E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2015, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 141-185
Further subjects:B Kadirbeyoğlu Zeki Bey
 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
 Trabzon
 Turkish nationalist movement
 Turkish parliament
 Turkish Republic
 political opposition
 Republican People’s Party
 Progressive Republican Party

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