"Armed Minorities": The Cold War, Human Rights, and Ethnicity in U.S.-Turkish Relations
Journal: OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network)
Year: 2015

This dissertation examines international and domestic debates about minorities in Turkey-Armenians, Greeks, Jews, and Kurds-during the first decade of the Cold War, 1945-1955.It argues that lingering problems of ethnic identity and minorities formed an important backdrop to the emergence of the Cold War in the Middle East in a way that American officials sometimes failed to understand fully.International Cold War political intrigues also added urgency and complexity to Turkish official and publi