An unproductive way to start an analysis on Turkey is to give precedence to prior knowledge. Turkey has changed so much the last few years that what was known until
Languages which until the 18th and 19th century were only tools to communicate attained new roles with the appearance of the nation-states and nationalism. They were associated to national identity.
RT Erdogan said the the Greeks burned down İzmir (Smyrna) in 1922. Here are two article of H. Millas that reviews this historical issue:
The underdeveloped nature of the Ottoman state has been so over-discussed that it is hard to add anything new to the discussion. Still, I am going to try. While I don’t necessarily know anything about what was, I do
I feel honoured that I am invited to speak at this meeting about Greeks and Turks. I have spent a large part of my life opposing the agents as well as the understanding that caused the enmity, the hostility, even
Greeks Set Smyrna on Fire in (latest) Turkish TextbooksOn Historiography | Tuesday, 1 January 2002 Text of January 2002 - Unpublished Greeks Set Smyrna on Fire in (latest) Turkish Textbooks By H. Millas ‘Ό Έλληνες λένε πως οι Τούρκοι έκαψαν τη Σμύ... |
The ‘Other’ and Nation Building - The Testimony of Greek and Turkish NovelsOn Historiography | Saturday, 1 January 2005 First published in Representations of the ‘Other/s’ in the Mediterranean World and Their Impact on the Region, Editors: Nedret Kuran-Burçoğlu & Susan Gilson Miller, The Issis Press, İstanbu... |
Reactions of Greeks and Turks to Verbal InsultsUnpublished Presentations-Lectures | Saturday, 1 May 1999 Hercules (Iraklis) Millas - May 1999 (Unpublished) Reactions of Greeks and Turks to Verbal Insults: A Sphere of Ethnic Diversity The Greeks of Istanbul con... |
Reciprocity in National ParadigmAbout Minorities | Wednesday, 6 July 2005 Published in Samim Akgönül (edit.) Reciprocity, Greek and Turkish Minorities, Law, Religion and Politics, Istanbul: Bilgi University Press, 2008. Presentation in Afemam, Atelier 12, Strasbour... |
Neo-Ottomanism, a Book and Bilateral PerceptionsGreek-Turkish Relations | Monday, 20 November 2017 Article of H. Millas in Rethinking Greek-Turkish Relations Since 1999, Edited by Gökçe Bayındır Goulakas and Hakan Sezgin Erkan, Lexington Books, New York, London, October 2017. Neo-Ottoman... |
Tormented Greeks and Turks (finally) cooperateOn Historiography | Monday, 1 December 2008 Review by Dr. Hercules Millas for South European Society & Politics: Umut Özkırımlı and Spyros A. Sofos, Tormented by History, Nationalism in Greece and Turkey, Hurst & Company, London: 20... |
Constructing Memories of ‘Multiculturalism’ and Identities In the Turkish NovelsLiterary Critisizm | Thursday, 7 December 2006 Presentation of H. Millas in the workshop “Turkish Literature and Cultural Memory: ‘Multiculturalism’ as a Literary Theme after 1980”, 08.-09.12.2006, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen ... |
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