Smyrna Fire by H. Millas
RT Erdogan said the the Greeks burned down İzmir (Smyrna) in 1922. Here are two article of H. Millas that reviews this historical issue:
Underdevelopment
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
Friendship among people or between nations? – The Case of Greeks and Turks
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
Native Language and Demagoguery
When is demagoguery necessary? When we are wrong or when we cannot defend our point. In short, when we feel stuck. Instead of saying “Sorry” or “I was wrong,” we prefer to beat around the bush. It is said
The Contrasting Images of Greeks in Turkish Literature: Fiction versus Memoirs
Negatively portrayed individuals who belong to a neighbouring nation in texts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is not a surprising phenomenon. One can even argue that the negatively portrayed national stereotypes of the "other" in textbooks, lite
H.M Articles
ALL Todays ZamanArticles In Today's Zaman | Sunday, 22 January 2017 Starting from 2002 and until March 2016 396 commentaries of mine were published in Zaman newspaper in Turkish. Fifty seven of these articles were published in Today’s Zaman in English, too. These ar... |
Non-Muslim Minorities in the Historiography of Republican Turkey: The Greek CaseAbout Minorities | Thursday, 30 May 2002 First published in The Ottomans and the Balkans – A Discussion of Historiography, (Edit) Fikret Adanır & Suraiya Faroqhi, Brill, Leiden/Boston/Köln, 2002. Non-Muslim Minorities in the Hi... |
The National Perception of the ‘Other’ and the Persistence of Some ImagesOn Historiography | Thursday, 1 January 2004 First published in Turkish-Greek Relations – The Security Dilemma in the Aegean, Editors: Mustafa Aydın & Kostas Ifandis, Routledge, London and New York, 2004. The National Percept... |
Boğaziçi University and Our ReflexesSchool Books-Teaching | Friday, 26 September 2008 Today’s Zaman, 26 September 2008, Friday, Commentary, Boğaziçi University and Our Reflexes byHERKÜL MİLLAS When someone ever asks me “Where are you from?” these days I wa... |
The Strategy of Turkey in the Middle EastUnpublished Presentations-Lectures | Monday, 20 November 2017 Written by Hercules (Iraklis) Millas for World Orders Forum- 9 November 2017 http://wgresearch.org/the-world-orders-forum/ The Strategy of Turkey in the Middle East ... |
Native Language and DemagoguerySchool Books-Teaching | Friday, 15 October 2010 Native Language and Demagoguery by Herkül Millas 15 October 2010, Today’s Zaman, Commentary When is demagoguery necessary? When we are wrong or when we cannot defend our point. In short, when we fe... |
The Imagined 'Other' as National Identity: Greeks and TurksUnpublished Presentations-Lectures | Thursday, 28 April 2005 A lecture at SOAS (London) by Dr. Hercules Millas (University of Athens); April 28, 2005 The Imagined 'Other' as National Identity: Greeks and Turks NOTES & TITLES - Any t... |
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