When Greeks And Turks Meet

Author : Vally Lytra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134762675

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When Greeks and Turks Meet by Vally Lytra Pdf

The relationship between the history, culture and peoples of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus is often reduced to an equation which defines one side in opposition to the other.The reality is much more complex and while there have been and remain significant divisions there are many, and arguably more, areas of overlap, commonality and common interest.This book addresses a gap in the scholarly literature by bringing together specialists from different disciplinary traditions - history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, literature, ethnomusicology and international relations, so as to examine the relationship between Greeks and Turks, as well as between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, since the founding of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. When Greeks and Turks Meet aims to contribute to current critical and comparative approaches to the study of this complex relationship in order to question essentialist representations, stereotypes and dominant myths and understand the context and ideology of events, processes and experience. Starting from this interdisciplinary perspective and taking both diachronic and synchronic approaches, the book offers a fresh coverage of key themes including memory, history and loss; the politics of identity, language and culture; discourses of inclusion and exclusion. Contributors focus on the geographical areas of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus and on the modern historical period (since 1923) up to the present day, offering in some cases an informed perspective that looks towards the future. When Greeks and Turks Meet will be essential reading for students and researchers working on the cross-roads of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, on South-East Europe and the Middle East more generally. It will also be a valuable resource for students and researchers in inter-cultural communication, cultural and media studies, language and education, international relations and politics, refugee and migration studies, conflict and post-conflict studies.

Author : Bruce Clark
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783789023

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Twice A Stranger by Bruce Clark Pdf

It was a massive, yet little-known landmark in modern history: in 1923, after a long war over the future of the Ottoman world, nearly 2 million citizens of Turkey or Greece were moved across the Aegean, expelled from their homes because they were of the 'wrong' religion. Orthodox Christians were deported from Turkey to Greece, Muslims from Greece to Turkey. At the time, world statesmen hailed the transfer as a solution to the problem of minorities who could not coexist. Both governments saw the exchange as a chance to create societies where a single culture prevailed. But how did the people who crossed the Aegean feel about this exercise in ethnic engineering? Bruce Clark's fascinating account of these turbulent events draws on new archival research in Greece and Turkey and interviews with some of the surviving refugees, allowing them to speak for themselves for the first time.

Author : Dr Laurence Raw
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443827584

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Exploring Turkish Cultures by Dr Laurence Raw Pdf

This groundbreaking series of essays offers new insights into Turkish cultures both past and present. Moving beyond the traditional binaries of east/west, Islam/secularism, and Europe/Asia, the book contains a variety of perspectives on contemporary Turkey, from actors, directors, critics and other major cultural figures. The book tries to situate these opinions in context by looking at how such perspectives are employed in different cultural spheres—education, theatre, politics and the like. Exploring Turkish Cultures contains the first major interviews published in English with prominent public figures, including actors Türkân Şoray, Genco Erkal and Nesrin Kazankaya. Other figures interviewed include film directors Derviş Zaim and documentary filmmakers Ben Hopkins, Pelin Esmer and Özgür Doğan. An extended interview with the author, translator and academic Talât Halman rounds off the interview section. Complementing these interviews are a series of essays on major Turkish films and theatrical productions, both past and present. Combining historical analysis, comment and evaluation from an author who has spent two decades living in Turkey, Exploring Turkish Cultures represents a major contribution to contemporary Turkish studies.

Author : Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89091956300

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When Greeks Think about Turks by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Pdf

Exploring the cultural boundaries of what is means to 'Greek' or 'Turk', this book draws upon anthropological data to compare the opinions of diverse social groups and shed light on the politics of identity-making.

Author : Lois Whitman,Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1564320561

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Denying Human Rights and Ethnic Identity by Lois Whitman,Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.) Pdf

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Author : William St. Clair
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781906924003

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That Greece Might Still be Free by William St. Clair Pdf

When in 1821, the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves of sympathy spread across Western Europe and the United States. More than a thousand volunteers set out to fight for the cause. The Philhellenes, whether they set out to recreate the Athens of Pericles, start a new crusade, or make money out of a war, all felt that Greece had unique claim on the sympathy of the world. As Byron wrote, 'I dreamed that Greece might Still be Free'; and he died at Missolonghi trying to translate that dream into reality. William St Clair's meticulously researched and highly readable account of their aspirations and experiences was hailed as definitive when it was first published. Long out of print, it remains the standard account of the Philhellenic movement and essential reading for any students of the Greek War of Independence, Byron, and European Romanticism. Its relevance to more modern ethnic and religious conflicts is becoming increasingly appreciated by scholars worldwide. This new and revised edition includes a new Introduction by Roderick Beaton, an updated Bibliography and many new illustrations.

Author : Arnold J. Toynbee
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9353701759

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The Western Question in Greece and Turkey by Arnold J. Toynbee Pdf

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Author : Renée Hirschon
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857457020

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Crossing the Aegean by Renée Hirschon Pdf

Following the defeat of the Greek Army in 1922 by nationalist Turkish forces, the 1923 Lausanne Convention specified the first internationally ratified compulsory population exchange. It proved to be a watershed in the eastern Mediterranean, having far-reaching ramifications both for the new Turkish Republic, and for Greece which hadto absorb over a million refugees. Known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe by the Greeks, it marked the establishment of the independent nation state for the Turks. The consequences of this event have received surprisingly little attention despite the considerable relevance for the contemporary situation in the Balkans. This volume addresses the challenge of writing history from both sides of the Aegean and provides, for the first time, a forum for multidisciplinary dialogue across national boundaries.

Author : Monteagle Stearns
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0876091109

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Entangled Allies by Monteagle Stearns Pdf

From the John Holmes Library collection.

Author : Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317997498

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When Greeks think about Turks by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Pdf

Drawing upon anthropological studies that document culturally specific ways of perceiving ethic Others in Greece and Cyprus, this book explores the cultural boundaries of the categories ‘Greek’ and ‘Turk’, and compares views on what it means to be one of these ethnic groups or both. The contributors examine the opinions of diverse social groups, such as ordinary middle-class citizens, intellectuals, army officers, children, villagers, refugees from Asia Minor, and Greek-and-Turkisj-Cypriots. They also investigate the local attitudes to international politics and highlight the contextual – as opposed to immutable and essentialist – meaning of evaluations about nations, such as Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, and their citizens. When Greeks think about Turks carefully unpacks the cultural meaning of popular metaphors, stereotypes and versions of history as these are articulated in the context of discussions about the Turks in Greece. It sets the template for understanding how local perceptions of resemblance and difference provide a conceptual framework for defining and negotiating ethnic identity at the local, national and international level. It sheds valuable light on the politics of identity-making and the constitution of nationalism in Greece and Cyprus. This book was previously published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.

Author : Jacob Philipp Fallmerayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1016442327

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Geschichte Der Halbinsel Morea Während Des Mittelalters by Jacob Philipp Fallmerayer Pdf

Author : Konstantinos Tsitselikis
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004221529

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Old and New Islam in Greece by Konstantinos Tsitselikis Pdf

Providing an interdisciplinary look at Greece’s Muslim minority and migrant communities, this book provides an exhaustive legal analysis of regulations and broadens our understanding of the political management of ethnic and religious otherness, while placing these phenomena in historical context.

Author : Emine Yesim Bedlek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857729972

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Imagined Communities in Greece and Turkey by Emine Yesim Bedlek Pdf

In 1923 the Turkish government, under its new leader Kemal Ataturk, signed a renegotiated Balkan Wars treaty with the major powers of the day and Greece. This treaty provided for the forced exchange of 1.3 million Christians from Anatolia to Greece, in return for 30,000 Greek Muslims. The mass migration that ensued was a humanitarian catastrophe - of the 1.3 million Christians relocated it is estimated only 150,000 were successfully integrated into the Greek state. Furthermore, because the treaty was ethnicity-blind, tens of thousands of Muslim Greeks (ethnically and linguistically) were forced into Turkey against their will. Both the Greek and Turkish leadership saw this exchange as crucial to the state-strengthening projects both powers were engaged in after the First World War. Here, Emine Bedlek approaches this enormous shift in national thinking through literary texts - addressing the themes of loss, identity, memory and trauma which both populations experienced. The result is a new understanding of the tensions between religious and ethnic identity in modern Turkey.

Author : Hercules Millas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : 6053994251

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Nations and Identities by Hercules Millas Pdf

Author : Mark Mazower
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698163980

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The Greek Revolution by Mark Mazower Pdf

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize • One of The Economist's top history books of the year From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of Independence—the ultimate worldwide liberal cause célèbre of the age of Byron, Europe’s first nationalist uprising, and the beginning of the downward spiral of the Ottoman Empire—published two hundred years after its outbreak As Mark Mazower shows us in his enthralling and definitive new account, myths about the Greek War of Independence outpaced the facts from the very beginning, and for good reason. This was an unlikely cause, against long odds, a disorganized collection of Greek patriots up against what was still one of the most storied empires in the world, the Ottomans. The revolutionaries needed all the help they could get. And they got it as Europeans and Americans embraced the idea that the heirs to ancient Greece, the wellspring of Western civilization, were fighting for their freedom against the proverbial Eastern despot, the Turkish sultan. This was Christianity versus Islam, now given urgency by new ideas about the nation-state and democracy that were shaking up the old order. Lord Byron is only the most famous of the combatants who went to Greece to fight and die—along with many more who followed events passionately and supported the cause through art, music, and humanitarian aid. To many who did go, it was a rude awakening to find that the Greeks were a far cry from their illustrious forebears, and were often hard to tell apart from the Ottomans. Mazower does full justice to the realities on the ground as a revolutionary conspiracy triggered outright rebellion, and a fraying and distracted Ottoman leadership first missed the plot and then overreacted disastrously. He shows how and why ethnic cleansing commenced almost immediately on both sides. By the time the dust settled, Greece was free, and Europe was changed forever. It was a victory for a completely new kind of politics—international in its range and affiliations, popular in its origins, romantic in sentiment, and radical in its goals. It was here on the very edge of Europe that the first successful revolution took place in which a people claimed liberty for themselves and overthrew an entire empire to attain it, transforming diplomatic norms and the direction of European politics forever, and inaugurating a new world of nation-states, the world in which we still live.