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
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... |
A ‘Rum’ in Robert College in the Years 1955-1965Unpublished Presentations-Lectures | Friday, 18 November 2005 By H. Millas in the Conference “Not the Least Among Many: The Greeks at Robert College”, Istanbul, Boğaziçi Unıversity, 19 November 2005. A ‘Rum’ in Robert College in the Years 1955-... |
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... |
Tourkokratia: History and the Image of Turks in Greek LiteratureOn Historiography | Monday, 1 January 2007 Published in South European Society and Politics, Routledge, Volume 11, Number 1, March 2006 (pp. 47-60). Also, in When Greeks Think About Turks – The view from Antropology, (Ed. D. Theodossopoulos)... |
Ethnic Identity and Nation Building: On Byzantine and Ottoman Historical LegacyOn Historiography | Thursday, 16 November 2006 Presentation of Dr. Hercules Millas at the conference ‘The EU and the Historical Legacy in the Balkans’, University Centre St-Ignatius, Antwerp (UCSIA), November 16th -17th 2006 – Final text &nb... |
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... |
Perceptions of Conflict: Greeks and Turks in each other’s mirrorsOn Historiography | Friday, 31 July 2009 Published in In the Long Shadow of Europe, Greeks and Turks in the Era of Postnationalism, Edit by O. Anastasakis, K. Nicolaidis, K. Öktem, Martinus Nijhoff, 2009. Perceptions of ... |
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