[esafak]

Killing is not the only way to ethnically homogenize a population. Other instruments are suppression of ethnic identity, deportation and encouragement of emigration.

The nation state of Turkey's establishment out of the ethnically diverse Ottoman Empire deployed all of the above.

[dotancohen]

  > Other instruments are suppression of ethnic identity, deportation and encouragement of emigration.

Thank you. Again, though, the histories of the European states don't mention efforts at suppression of ethnic identities, deportation, nor encouragement of emigration - at least not up until the 1930s.

If there are good sources to read about this occurring I would love to read them. Otherwise the insinuations are baseless.

[lazide]

Do the Jews count? [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Europe]

That goes back to at least 1095. Or the Inquisiton? [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition]

Notably, it was exceptionally common for Religion to overlap almost exactly with Ethnicity (for various reasons), so the fighting between different Sects was often a common proxy for fights between different Ethnic groups too.

Also, since different Ethnic groups tended to ‘own’ different countries, each time there was an invasion, one would either make ground, or get repelled ‘back where you came from’, which also tended to align ethnic groups by borders. Those efforts didn’t generally merit note. If ‘your side’ lost, even if you’d lived there for a couple of generations, of course you’d lose your land and need to flee ‘home’.

Paris is one somewhat notable exception though.

Language is also an interesting proxy for this. Spanish vs French vs German vs English, etc.

still, there was always the ‘European’ Spaniards, vs the Moorish Spaniards, eh? Splits within splits.

[lazide]

Pretty much still does against the Kurds