Featherstone Kevin, Papadimitriou Dimitros, Mamarelis Argyris, Niarchos Georgios (ed.) The Last Ottomans: The Muslim Minority of Greece, 1940-1949

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 379 p.List of BoxesList of Maps and PlatesList of Place NamesAn historical puzzle: the Muslims of Western Thrace during two wars
Positioning the case study
A note on sources and methodology
The Muslim Community of Western Thrace in ContextThe physical and human geography of Western Thrace Location, location, location
Distant neighbours
Stillborn attempts for Thracian statehood
The Tamrash (Тъмръш) Rebellion (1878–1886)
The Republic of Gümülcine (1913)
The Turkish Republic of Western Thrace (1920)
The question of Thrace within the context of socialist internationalism
The ‘minoritisation’ of the Muslims of Western Thrace 36
The political orientation of the minority during the 1930s
Between Ottoman ‘traditionalism’ and Kemalist ‘progress’
The electoral behaviour of the Muslim minority in the 1930sOn the Path to WarShifting balances in the Balkans: the international context prior to WWII
Western Thrace prepares for war
The Muslim community of Western Thrace and the outbreak of war
Changing loyalties: the battle(s) for Turkey’s neutralityBelomorieThe arrival of the Bulgarian administration
Accounts of Bulgarian repression
The economic impact of the Bulgarian occupation
Wartime population movements
Education and religion as vehicles of Bulgarian nationalism
Smaller minority groups in wartime Western Thrace
The Armenian community
The Roma community
The Jewish communityStrategies for SurvivalThe onset of resistance activity in occupied Greece
The activity of EAM-ELAS in Western Thrace
The activity of the nationalist resistance groups in Western Thrace
Muslim collaboration with the Bulgarian forces
The Turkish Consulate of KomotiniIn-Between Two WarsThe fall of the Bulgarian empire
The Allies advance
Bulgaria tries to stay
Playing the ‘Pomak Card’
A muted liberation
From chaos to chaos
The Muslim community at the polls
No turning backÇekiç Ile Örs Arasinda (Between a Rock and a Hard Place)Muslim soldiers of the Proletarian revolution
The military strategy of the DSE in Western Thrace
DSE recruitment and violence in Muslim villages
The Ottoman Battalion of the DSE
Women recruitment in the Ottoman battalion
The endgame of the civil war
Good Muslim, bad Muslim
Muslim recruitment in the Greek army and government-sponsored militias
Evidence of state-induced violence against the Muslim community
Court-Martial cases involving members of the Muslim community
The battle for Muslim hearts and minds
Communist propaganda in the Rhodope Mountains
State-organised anti-communist propagandaParallel UniversesThe Muslim community between two authorities
The return of the Greek state to Western Thrace
The Soviet Muslim Republic of Western Thrace
Muslim immigration to Turkey during the civil war
Immigration tales
The response of the Greek authorities to the Muslim emigration
Welfare provision for the ‘guerrilla-stricken’
The distribution of government aid in Western Thrace
The welfare of children as an instrument of war
Minority education during the civil war
Educating ‘nationally-minded’ Greeks
Educating Muslim communistsThe strategic relevance of kindred minorities
Resistance and insurgency
Identity, ‘groupness’ and war
Future research
The nexus between past and present
Sources