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The aim of our study is revealing that the nation-state policies how affect communities and individuals. The “state aparatus” that have invented for the basıc needs such as health and safety away from the this goal time to time and cause tragedy. In our thesis, what happened with The Greek-Turkish Compulsary Exchange that change the life of two million people are explained in the framework of the nation-state policies. The emigrants brought songs the pain of losing their relatives and shearing from their homes, music is also used in the past as a way to maintain their lives. İn this study, the populer music of the Exchange period, rebetico been considered as a resistance to the efford of natioanlism. Thus work of individuals to protect themselves against the naiton-state mentality are discussed

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