Abstract:

The perception of national or ethnic identity built with socio-cultural ties such as language, culture, ethnicity, history, religion, which seem to be symbols of belonging to a group. At the same time, it drew the new boundaries of the sense of citizenship in a nationalist and secular way. The concept of being a nation began to be reinterpreted with the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. In the modern era, the new artificial boundaries of being a nation were defined by national territory, national literary thought, history, culture, nationalized law and the citizen who assimilated them. The definition of citizenship was based on religion and depicted both a complex and heterogeneous characteristic in a country that had a different historicity from other European countries such as the Ottoman Empire. However, the acquisition of citizenship in the Republic of Turkey has found itself in a secular/secular and contemporary definition of Turkishness. In the Republican ideology, the revolutions made were revealing and constructing the basic thought universe of Kemalist Turkish nationalists. As a matter of fact, the framework of national citizenship was formed in the light of these developments. During this period, various political, cultural, bureaucratic and legal processes were waiting for those who did not comply with the new definition of citizenship with a national character. In this study, the processes of deprivation of citizenship of people who do not comply with the new citizenship regime applied in the early republican years will be discussed.

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