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Translated Into Socialism
Sezgin Boynik, Tevfik Rada & Merve Elveren
Translated Into Socialism
Sezgin Boynik, Tevfik Rada & Merve Elveren

Translated into Socialism presents the little-known history of the Turkish-speaking community in Yugoslavia, more precisely, in Kosovo and Macedonia. It explores how, in a multinational social context, a Turkish identity was affirmed and transformed under socialist ideology. The historical scope of Translated into Socialism goes back to 1920, the year when a part of the oppressed Muslim population in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia saw their redemption in leftist ideas. It traces the story of a new generation of activists who helped clear the way for a socialist future, a vision that was violently interrupted by the monarchic regime. Building upon this legacy, the exhibition expands into the new reality of the Socialist Yugoslavia until the late 1980s.