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Dispute and settlement in rural TurkeyBook 1978 • Starr, June
Turks • Middle East > Middle East
This is an ethnography of dispute management at the village level. In 1920s, under the new Republic, Ataturk abolished the Islamic Shari'a courts and adopted the Swiss Civil Code. The Republic also instituted the Village Law of 1926, which incorporat...