S.Akşin Somel's New Book:Gayrımüslim Okulları Nasıl 'Azınlık Okulu' Oldu

The study titled Gayrimüslim Okulları Nasıl Azınlık Okullarına Dönüştü / How did non-Muslim schools turned into minority schools? was prepared as a part of the project titled Minority Schools from the Past to the Present: Problems and Solutions.

This project was developed with the aim to contribute to the democratization process and for the improvement of education in Turkey. It was realized through the support of the Tarih Vakfı and the Global Dialogue Foundation.

This book discusses the development of Greek, Armenian and Jewish schools from the mid-nineteenth century to the Peace Treaty of Lausanne. It is shown that while community schools constituted major educational networks during the second half of the nineteenth century, the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877-78 and the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 led to political conditions where non-Muslim schools were subjected to major pressures, eventually reducing them to level of minority schools with very little educational presence.