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
Teaching Greek in Turkey - Some Experiences from Interethnic LearningSchool Books-Teaching | Thursday, 28 April 1994 By Hercules Millas for the conference 'Cyprus in Textbooks – Textbooks in Cyprus', organized by Georg-Eckert Institut in Braunschweig, 28-30 April 1994, unpublished presentation. ... |
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Turks to Verbal InsultsUnpublished Presentations-Lectures | Saturday, 1 May 1999 Hercules (Iraklis) Millas - May 1999 (Unpublished) Reactions of Greeks and Turks to Verbal Insults: A Sphere of Ethnic Diversity The Greeks of Istanbul con... |
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... |
Bilingualism and national identity: Prestigious versus unprestigious languagesSchool Books-Teaching | Thursday, 28 February 2019 H. Millas, 2 November 2019, in the meeting: Institute for Literature – BAS, University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski” and Institut Français : “Bilingualism. The language as lieu de mem... |
The Greek-Turkish Relations and the Young PeopleGreek-Turkish Relations | Tuesday, 31 August 2004 Prepared by Hercules Millas – on request of Burcu Becermen An Intervention in a Youth Organization Workshop September 2004 The Greek-Turkish Relations and the Young People ... |
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... |
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 ... |
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