DEMOGRAPHIC FEATURES OF VAN ACCORDING TO THE FIRST CENSUS DATA OF THE REPUBLICAN PERIOD (1927)
CUMHURİYET DÖNEMİNİN İLK NÜFUS SAYIMI VERİLERİNE (1927) GÖRE VAN’IN DEMOGRAFİK ÖZELLİKLERİ

Author : İrşad SAMİ YUCA
Number of pages : 144-166

Abstract

The Anatolian people as a whole after severe political, military and economic difficulties declared to the world the success of the National Struggle. After a while from this rightful success the Kemalists who strictly controlled political power, they declared the Republican regime on October 29, 1923. Anymore, with an ideological politics based on Western modernization it was aimed to make new kinds of changes in society all across the country. During this time, it was inevitable that people and groups from different social sectors spread across the country were not affected by those top-down changes and transformations. The data of 1927 general population census is a reliable source for monitoring socio-economic and cultural changes in Turkey after the war and during the revolutions period. In this study, the general demographic characteristics of Van province will be evaluated in the light of first republic census data.

Keywords

Republican Period, Population Census of 1927, Van, Demography

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