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Title pages_Contents_Acknowledgements
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 1 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 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1 The People’s House 7 27 PART ONE Human Geography of Provincial People’s Houses 65 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 191 139 Chapter 6 People’s Houses vs. Coffeehouses Chapter 7 Women on the Halkevi Stage Chapter 8 Halkevi in the countryside: Village excursions Conclusions 251 283 Appendix 293 Bibliography 297 Summary in Dutch 309 Curriculum Vitae 317 3 193 217 4 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. 5 6