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
Constructing Memories of ‘Multiculturalism’ and Identities In the Turkish NovelsAbout Minorities | 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 ... |
History Teaching and the formation of National Identity: The Greek and Turkish Case ComparedGreek-Turkish Relations | Sunday, 31 October 2010 By H. Millas – Lecture “B” in the USA, University of Tuscon, Arizona and University of Brown, Rhode Island, November 2010 DRAFT ONLY History Teaching and the formation of National Identit... |
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Turks to Verbal InsultsUnpublished Presentations-Lectures | Saturday, 1 May 1999 Hercules (Iraklis) Millas - May 1999 (Unpublished) Reactions of Greeks and Turks to Verbal Insults: A Sphere of Ethnic Diversity The Greeks of Istanbul con... |
Nations and Identities: The case of Greeks and TurksGreek-Turkish Relations | Thursday, 30 May 2013 To read the e-book "Nations and Identities: The case of Greeks and Turks" CLICK HERE! |
Greek-Turkish Conflict And Arsonist FiremenLiterary Critisizm | Saturday, 1 April 2000 Published in New Perspectives On Turkey,Istanbul, Spring 2000, 22, pp. 173-184 Greek-Turkish Conflict And Arsonist Firemen Herkül Millas The Greek-Turkish political conflict ... |
The image of the Greek minority of Istanbul in Turkish literature: past and recent tendenciesAbout Minorities | Monday, 29 May 2006 Published in Intercultural Aspects in and around Turkic Literatures, Matthias Kappler (ed), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2006. The image of the Greek minority of Istanbul in Turkish literatur... |
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... |
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