Mülksüzleşme Süreci Bağlaminda Bir Köy Monografisi
A Village Monograph in the Context of the Process of Dispossession

Summary/Abstract: The resettlement policy that brought to the agenda and performed extensively in the mid-1990s as an extension of military strategy to consolidate control over territory was one of the most important “mass exile” of our recent history, which forcibly displaced over one million people. Thousands of families forcibly exiled mostly in several days to big cities without planning their destination. The studies about forced exile of people off their villages mainly focused on the issue in context of the “Kurdish question.” besides that the issue has an ethno-politic dimension like “Kurdish question” it has an obvious class dimension in terms of dispossession and proletarinization. This dimension has not sufficiently been focused so far. For this very basic reason this study based on a village research to enlighten the process of dispossession and proletarinization of exiled villagers resulted by the “civil war” that has been lasting for 25 years. This study searches for answers to the questions that the effects of the practices of the dispossession of 1990s on the phenomenon that was named urban poverty and the social identity of urban poors. As a result, though this study enlightens the depropertization and impoverishment of Müşkirek village one of the central village of Tunceli as result of resettlement policy that was applied until mid-1990s, it also gives an idea about the class transformation of millions as result of the policies of the period mentioned in general. Of course, this study that is based on qualitative interview method consisting of open ended questions and utilizes the knowledge of the field does not avoid offering a few solutions for the problem that has crystalized as “urban poverty.”

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