ULUS-DEVLET İNŞASININ TAHTACILARA YANSIMALARI: İTTİHAT VE TERAKKİ CEMİYETİ'NİN TAHTACI ALEVİLERİ RAPORU.

This article aims to analyze how the Commitee of Union and Progress (CUP) approached to the Tahtaci Alevis via using a report, written in 1918, of CUP. Whether the dominant Turkish nationalists' ideas and the CUP's Turkification polity coincide with the Tahtaci Alevis' social, cultural, religious identity is discussed. We often confront the studies of which focused on the Turkification approaches to different ethnicities when Anatolia was transformed into a homogenized structure as the last haven of Turkishness. In this study, we will rather focus to the CUP's main anxieties regarding a society which has a Turkish-Alevi background. How these perspectives were reflected in this CUP's report of Tahtacis will be the main discussion of the article. We will firstly give some introductory information regarding the Tahtacis, and then secondly, the main arguments of Tahtaci literature will be addressed. Later, we will focus on the CUP's world of mentality and anxieties in order to better understand the report of Tahtaci Alevis. And lastly, we will discuss whether it is possible to proclaim the demographic data of Tahtaci Alevis during the early 20th century before we dig in to the details of the report. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]