The Wealth Tax (Varlik Vergisi) affair. Documents from the British national archives.

Libra, 2012

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Year of publication

2012

ISBN

9786054326556

Place of printing

Istanbul

Author

Rifat N. Bali.

Pages

Publishers

Libra

Size

8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

Keyword

TURKEY OF THE REPUBLIC TURKISH ECONOMY NON-MUSLIM MINORITIES, MINORITY GREEK GREEKS LES MINORITÉS NON-MUSULMANES GRECS, NICHT-MUSLIMISCHE MINDERHEITEN GRIECHEN MINORANZE NON MUSULMANE, GRECI LAS MINORÍAS NO MUSULMANAS GRIEGOS IKKE-MUSLIMSKE, MINORITETER GREKERE JEW JEWS JEWISH CULTURE SOCIAL LIFE HISTORY, JUIF JUIVE JUIVEN JUDAISM SEPHARDI SEPHARDIC ARMENICA ARMENIA, ARMENIAN ARMENIANS ARMÉNIENS MINORITÉ MINDERHEIT ARMENIER ARMENI, MINORANZA MUSULMANA MUSULMANES ARMENIOS MINORÍA IKKE-MUSLIMSK, MINORITET ARMENERE, History of Turkey

Binding description

Soft cover

Languages

English

Binding

Softcover

Description

New English Paperback. Pbo. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In English. 549 p. "The present volume studies the issues surrounding the Turkish wartime "Wealth Tax" (1942-1943) and its implementation. As its name implies, the Wealth Tax (Varlik Vergisi), was originally conceived as a tool for taxing the extreme wealth being made through wartime profiteering and black market operations in Turkey during the Second World War. In practice, however, it was imposed in an arbitrary and discriminatory fashion, in essence representing a sort of "economic warfare" carried out by the Turkish regime against the country's non-Muslim population, appropriating much of their wealth and shattering all the hopes and aspirations for eventual religious and ethnic equality that had been held out by the Turkish Constitution some twenty years before. This study is based on documents gleaned from the National Archives of the United Kingdom and provides a detailed and chronological account of this tragic event.".