^{#smrgKİTABEVİ} Eugenics in Turkey During the 1930's -

This book studies Turkish eugenics. Eugenics is the touchstone of racism. It is impossible to believe javascript:submitbutton('save');in that racist ideas of the West could not or did not find any proponents in Turkey. Any politician who aims to reach power may use the necessary terminology, the catchwords. Whether this man and his brethren would reach political power is some other issue and depends on various parameters. It is better to seek answers to the question “What happened?” instead of “What was said?” Therefore, in this work, great attention has been paid to avoid deductions bounded by “catchwords” and to definitions that were often utilised in the historiography of the 1930's.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
PREFACE by Prof. Seçil Kara Akgün

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 2: EUGENIC APPLICATIONS IN VARIOUS WESTERN COUNTRIES
The United States
The United Kingdom
Germany
Denmark
Sweden
CHAPTER 3
EUGENICS IN TURKEY
Bölüm 7 / Tek Devlet Tek Millet: Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ve Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nin Kuruluşu
Introduction
Eugenic Legislation
Marriage Restrictions
Current Marriage Restriction
First Marriage Restriction
Further Marriage Restrictions
Marriage Restriction Annulled
Marriage Restriction Set Again
Regulations for Family Law
The Syphilis Law
The Civil Code (1926)
The General Hygiene Law
Other Eugenic Legislation
The Alcohol Law
The Penal Code
The State and the Medical Profession
Developments of Eugenic Ideas
Institutional Structures of Eugenics
Eugenics in Teachers' Colleges
Eugenics as Taught in the Medical School
Eugenics at Medical Congresses
Institutionalising of Eugenics in Turkey
Turkish Eugenic Institution
The Hygiene Institute
The Ministry of Health
Eugenics in the Republican People's Party Conferences
Eugenic Propositions Halted
Had Eugenic Principles Been Accepted, What Would Change?
Changing the Conceptualisation of Eugenics
The Importance and Reason of the Rejection
İnönü's Rejection of Social Darwinism

CONCLUSION
APPENDICES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX