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
L’IMAGE DU GREC D’ISTANBULAbout Minorities | Friday, 22 June 2012 To read the article "L’IMAGE DU GREC D’ISTANBUL" of Iraklis Millas please CLICK HERE! |
Non-Muslim Minorities in the Historiography of Republican Turkey: The Greek CaseOn Historiography | 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... |
Greeks Set Smyrna on Fire in (latest) Turkish TextbooksSchool Books-Teaching | Tuesday, 1 January 2002 Text of January 2002 - Unpublished Greeks Set Smyrna on Fire in (latest) Turkish Textbooks By H. Millas ‘Ό Έλληνες λένε πως οι Τούρκοι έκαψαν τη Σμύ... |
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... |
Les romans, les femmes et les relations gréco-turquesLiterary Critisizm | Sunday, 1 August 1999 By H. Millas, in the journal 'Genese-Oluşum', France, May/August 1999 Traduction : Samim et Frédérique AKGÖNÜL Les romans, les femmes et les relations gréco-turque... |
History Teaching and the formation of National Identity: The Greek and Turkish Case ComparedOn Historiography | 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... |
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