Turkish Views

        Turks & Greeks

        Vamik D. Volkan and Norman Itzkowitz

        Contents

        Foreword

        by former Ambassador W.Nathaniel Howell
        Preface and Acknowledgements

        Map 1: The Balkans and the Middle East

        1. History through a Psychological Lens

        • The Psychology of Large Group Neighbours
        • Ethnicity
        • Chosen Traumas and Chosen Glories
        • The Shaking of the Ethnic Tent

        2. Anatolia before the Turks

        • Greek Migrations
        • Map 2: Seljuk Turks in Anatolia (1243)
        • The Persian Wars
        • Alexander and Hellenism
        • The Romans and Christianity
        • Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire

        3. From Manzikert to Constantinople-The First Encounters

        • The Carusades
        • The Beginning of the Ottomans

        4. Greek Inability to Mourn over Constantinople

        • The Seed of the Megali Idea
        • Linking and Unlinking
        • Mehmet the Conqueror and Oedipal Themes
        • Mutual Curiosity
        • Cross-Identification

        5. The Mourning Process of the Turksh

        • St. Sophia
        • The Age of Koca Mimar sinan

        6. The Ottoman Empire

        • Map 3: The Ottoman Empire
        • Institutional Arrangements
        • Careers
        • Osmanli (Ottoman)
        • The Millet System
        • The Nineteenth Century
        • The End of the Ottoman Empire
        • The View of the Turk

        7. Togetherness

        • Turkoratia
        • Turkish Life During the Ottoman Period

        8. Separateness

        • Klephts, Armatoles, Phanariots, and Merchants
        • The Building of a Nation and the Megali Idea
        • Greek Nationalism
        • Massive Group Projections

        9. The Last Century of the Ottoman Empire

        • Mahmut II vs. Mehmet Ali
        • Tazminat
        • Wanton Characterization
        • Crete
        • Capitulations
        • Abdülhamit II and the Young Turks
        • The Voyage of the Bandýrma

        10. The Turkish War of Independence

        • Facing the Greeks.

        11. Atatürk and Modern Turkish Nationalism

        • Early Childhood
        • From Mustafa Kemal to Atatürk
        • Atatürk's Personality Organization and his Westernization Efforts
        • Kemalism
        • After Atatürk

        12. The Peace Disappears

        • After the 1930s
        • Cyprus
        • The Aegean Sea

        13. The Latest Encounter-The Cyprus Conflict

        • The History of Cyprus before the Ottoman Conquest
        • The Ottoman Period
        • British Rule
        • Makarios III and Colonel Grivas
        • EOKA and Volkan
        • The Republic of Cyprus
        • The 'End' of the Republic of Cyprus
        • The Birds of Cyprus
        • Sampson
        • Summer 1974

        14. Cyprus after 1974

        • Map 4: Present Day Cyprus
        • Denktaþ-Makarios Guidelines
        • The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
        • Legal Opinions, "Real World" Politics and Life on a Divided Island
        • Any Solution?

        15. Davos and Beyond

        • The Gulf War
        • Turkic Republics
        • Recent Problems

        16. Symptoms of Obsession

        • The Media
        • Diplomatic Contacts
        • Contacts Among Citizens
        • 'Other-directed' Cultures

        17. 'Istanbul' not Constantinople

        • The Greek Identity
        • The Turkish Identity
        • A Comparative Summary
        • Assuming Responsibilities
        • Notes
        • Glossary
        • References