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Land occupation as a form of peasant struggle in Turkey, 1965–1980 by Burak Gürel; Bermal Küçük; Sercan Taş is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Abstract This article contributes to the literature on rural politics in Turkey by investigating peasants’ land occupations between 1965 and 1980. We show that agricultural modernization after 1945 created the structural conditions for land conflicts by enabling the reaching of the frontier of cultivable land and facilitating landlords’ displacement of tenants. The 1961 Constitution’s promise of land reform and the rise of the center-left and socialist politics helped peasants press for land reform by combining direct action and legalistic discourse. Moreover, the vastness of state-owned land and the incompleteness of cadastral records allowed peasants to challenge landlords’ ownership claims. During land occupations, villagers often claimed that contested areas were public property illegally encroached upon by landlords, and that the state was constitutionally obliged to distribute it to peasants. Although successive right-wing governments decreed these actions to be intolerable violations of property rights, their practical approach was more flexible and conciliatory. Although nationwide land reform was never realized, land occupations extracted considerable concessions via th
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- Author
- Burak Gürel; Bermal Küçük; Sercan Taş
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences