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The Mechanisms for Terrorizing Minorities: the Capital Tax and Work Battalions in Turkey During the Second World War Çetinog˘lu: The Mechanisms for Terrorizing Minorities 15 The Mechanisms for Terrorizing Minorities: The Capital Tax and Work Battalions in Turkey during the Second World War Sait Çetinog˘lu Two policies against non- Muslim minorities implemented during the Second World War by the Turkish government are analyzed in this essay: (1) the Capital Tax (Varlik Vergisi) implemented as a means of economic destruction of these minorities from November 1942 to March 1944 and (2) the mobiliza- tion of minority young men aged 18 to 45 into the so- called work battalions (amele taburlari) from May 1941 to September 1942 as a reprise of the work battalions during World War I. The motivations, conditions, and implemen- tation of both antiminority measures are examined and their consequences discussed. The Capital Tax The Varlik Vergisi constitutes a dark chapter in the history of modern Tur- key. It was implemented during 1942 – 44 under the pretext of controlling the price of goods and preventing accumulation of capital in a few hands, even though the very same government had taken no measures to stop the expansion of a black market and consequent increase of illegal profits in the previous two years. Passed under the pretext of public complaints, this measure implemented a devastating economic destruction policy against non- Muslim minorities through heavy taxation, confiscation of properties, and exile of members of these groups to work camps. The aim was to destroy the economic and cultural base of these minorities, loot their properties and means of livelihood, and, at the same time, “turkify” the economy of Turkey. Sait Çetinog˘lu is a historian at the Free University in Ankara, Turkey. Mediterranean Quarterly 23:2 DOI 10.1215/10474552-1587838 Copyright 2012 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/mediterranean-quarterly/article-pdf/23/2/14/317132/MQ232_02Cetinoglu_FPP.pdf by guest on 25 September 2021 Çetinog˘lu: The Mechanisms for Terrorizing Minorities 15 The Varlik Vergisi was in the tradition of the earlier Committee of Union and Progress efforts and had the nature of an “ethnic cleansing whip.”1 It was entirely political and represented precapitalist implementation of social transformation. The wartime government under Prime Minister Sukru Saracoglu and Pres- ident of State Ismet Inonu succeeded in a very devious way to divert criticism against themselves and turn it toward non- Muslim citizens and, through this law, to destroy these minorities economically and culturally in order to pro- mote ethnic homogenization.2 In this respect the Varlik Vergisi was aimed especially at such homogenization in Istanbul, the only region in the country where a significant percentage of minorities (Greeks, Armenians, and Jews) remained after the annihilation of non- Muslim groups during the decade of 1913 to 1923 in other parts of Anatolia.3 By implementing this law in an extremely unequal manner between Mus- lims and non- Muslims, the minorities were selectively targeted. For example, when President Inonu himself paid the tax he was upset, while Fevzi Cak- mak, chief of the armed forces, asked himself, “Am I a giavour [infidel]?” unable to hide his anger over paying an insignificant sum. Faik Okte, one of the architects of the tax, reveals the real targets of the tax when he recounts that Cakmak complained, “One of my aides came to my office and expressed his disapproval of the fact that he was obliged to pay this tax together with the minority people who are black marketers and merchants.”4 Ferit Melen, one of those reformer prime ministers who have always been 1. Tevfik Cavdar, Turkiye Ekonomisinin Tarihi [The history of Turkish economy] (Istanbul: Imge 2003), 38. The minister of finance of the Committee of Union and Progress, M. Cavit Bey, congrat- ulated those who became rich during the First World War using devious means, saying that they were able to learn how to accumulate capital. This way of thinking continues to exist today. Also see Mete Tuncay, Elestirel Tarih Yazilari [Critical history writings] (Istanbul: Liberte, 2005), 199. Tuncay summarizes the process of evolution of Turkish capitalism with these words: “Since there was no accumulation of capital based on the private ownership, state support was used to establish bourgeois capital. However, through this an unethical public tradition was developed surpassing the worse wild period of unscrupulous capitalism.” 2. Ridvan Akar, Varlik Vergisi Kanunu (Istanbul: Belge Yayinlari, January 1992), 105. 3. Henry Morgenthau, Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story (Garden City, NY: Doubleday Page, 1918 ). 4. Faik Okte, The Tragedy of the Turkish Capital Tax, trans. Geoffrey Cox (Kent, UK: Croom Helm, 1987). Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/mediterranean-quarterly/article-pdf/23/2/14/317132/MQ232_02Cetinoglu_FPP.pdf by guest on 25 September 2021 16 Mediterranean Quarterly: Spring 2012 Çetinog˘lu: The Mechanisms for Terrorizing Minorities 17 key factors in extraordinary situations,5 noted that “through Varlik Vergisi all the anti- minority goals were aimed to be realized simultaneously.”6 Var- lik Vergisi has been one of the country’s most devastating discriminatory practices, exceeded in its impact only by the anti- Jewish pogroms in Thrace in 1934,7 the campaign “Citizens Speak Turkish,” and the mobilization of minorities in work battalions in 1941 – 42.8 These political practices were aimed to show the minorities that they did not have a “place” to live in Tur- key. To those who still did not understand this message, the pogrom of 6 – 7 September 1955 was applied in a far more violent way to make them “under- stand” more clearly the message.9 The only choice left to minorities was to leave the country and abandon their properties. Those Jews who wanted to immigrate to the newly established state of Israel had to abandon all their properties in order to receive a permit to leave. The Greek citizens who were “etablis,”10 according to the Treaty of Lausanne,11 had to abandon all their movable and real estate properties when they were deported in 1964.12 Many were grateful that they were able to cross the border alive. One can read the ominous writings of Fazil Ahmet Aykac in the semi- official state journalUlus in the context of the atmosphere of those times: “We should know that this tax was more than a punishment to those who have not understood their limits; it was a colossal warning for those who dare to forget.”13 The events of the night of 6 – 7 September 1955 can be inter- 5. Ferit Melen was prime minister from March 1971 to May 1972, under the control of the armed forces. 6. Akar, Varlik Vergisi Kanunu, 105. 7. See Rifat Bali, 1934 Trakya Olaylari [1934 Thrace events] (Istanbul: Kitabevi, 2008). 8. See Rifat Bali, Yirmi Kur’a Nafia Askerleri [The 20 class work soldiers] (Istanbul: Kitabevi, 2008). 9. Speros Vryonis Jr., Speros Vryonis and the Mechanism of Catastrophe: The Turkish Pogrom of Sep- tember 6–7, 1955, and the Destruction of the Greek Community in Istanbul (New York: Greek works .com, 2005). 10. The Greeks of Istanbul being residents before 30 October 1918 in the Prefect of Istanbul (as the boundaries were defined in a 1912 law) were exempted from the exchange of population agree- ment under the Treaty of Lausanne (30 January 1923) independent of their citizenship status and were defined as “etablis.” 11. The treaty may be found at wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Treaty_of_Lausanne. 12. See Hulya Demir and Ridvan Akar, Istanbul’un son guunleri [The last days of Istanbul] (Istan- bul: Belge Yayinlari, 1994). 13. Fazil Ahmet Aykac, “Son Kararlari Dusunerek” [Thinking of last decisions], Ulus, 13 Novem- ber 1942. Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/mediterranean-quarterly/article-pdf/23/2/14/317132/MQ232_02Cetinoglu_FPP.pdf by guest on 25 September 2021 Çetinog˘lu: The Mechanisms for Terrorizing Minorities 17 preted as an expression of this mentality.14 Aykac noted that the Varlik Ver- gisi was the last point on the path begun in 1915 by the Committee of Union and Progress to sweep Ottoman Turkey clean of non- Muslims. Sergati, a member of the Jewish minority exiled for not being able to pay the tax placed on him, was unable to afford his exile in Askale and attempted suicide. In a letter left to his wife he expressed clearly the conditions of minorities in Turkey: “I don’t know if we will return to our homes, all the time death above us, please take care of our children and go to a free coun- try; here they will be nothing more than slaves.”15 Memory of the Varlik Vergisi persists as a festering wound even today. After so many years, the victims do not want to speak about this tax. They have not yet escaped fear of it. For this reason no research work can ever describe the actual level of barbarism of this form of taxation. Neither statis- tics nor any other kind of numerical analysis can reflect the deep and persis- tent pain felt by its victims. Consequently, my work concentrates more on the political aspects of the tax. The Mobilization of the Work Battalions of 20 Classes of Minorities, 1941 – 42 Before examining the Varlik Vergisi in greater detail, it is necessary to first analyze the mobilization into the work battalions (amele taburlari) for what was known as the “20 Classes”of minority youth. During the Second World War, this mobilization constituted a “pruning” and destruction of non- Muslim minorities who were Turkish citizens, with a well known procedure from Tur- key’s work battalions from the First World War.16 The implementation of this practice came from President Inonu (serving from 1938 to 1950), who had never abandoned the mentality of ethnic cleansing held by the Committee 14.
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