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Mediterranean Quarterly (2006) 17 (1): 133–140.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Evaggelos G. Vallianatos Speros Vryonis Jr.: The Mechanism of Catastrophe: The Turkish Pogrom of September 6–7, 1955, and the Destruction of the Greek Community of Istanbul . New York: Greekworks, 2005. 660 pages. ISBN 978-0-9747660-3-4. $75. Evaggelos G. Vallianatos holds a doctorate...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2006) 17 (1): 141–144.
Published: 01 March 2006
... in the evening of 6 September and early 7 September 1955, guided mobs of Turks attacked savagely the Greeks of Istanbul and, by means of fire and the crowbar, left forty-five Greek communities in ruins. The Turks, in a performance remi- niscent of the 1453 capture of Constantinople by their Ottoman...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2016) 27 (2): 5–27.
Published: 01 June 2016
... an entire society or era, as many do today, but instead to discredit the narrow political elite from whom they had recently seized power. Beginning in the 1940s and culmi- nating with the five-­hundredth anniversary of Istanbul’s conquest in 1953, Turkish politicians, academics, artists, novelists...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2016) 27 (2): 28–46.
Published: 01 June 2016
... control in their discourses. Hakan Sahin is a lieutenant colonel in the Turkish Army. He teaches at the Turkish Army War College, Istanbul. Copyright 2016 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2016 military in Turkey political thought military intervention democratic control of military...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2000) 11 (3): 87–99.
Published: 01 September 2000
... the Turkish Straits Yucel Guclu The Turkish Straits are a vital international waterway, particularly as the key to Istanbul and as the meeting place of Europe and Asia. In several places the straits are less than ten kilometers...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2016) 27 (1): 71–96.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., yet their microfoundations and the impact on citizens remain largely unexplored. Tracing the ways in which state, economic, and individual factors interact in two drastically different URPs in Istanbul, this resident-centered approach highlights two contradictory patterns: (1) citizens' increasing...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2012) 23 (2): 14–29.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., to destroy these minorities economically and culturally in order to pro- mote ethnic homogenization.2 In this respect the Varlik Vergisi was aimed especially at such homogenization in Istanbul, the only region in the country where a significant percentage of minorities (Greeks, Armenians, and Jews...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2009) 20 (1): 77–93.
Published: 01 March 2009
... discuss the notion of ecumenicity of Orthodoxy that has been promulgated for centuries by the Ecumenical Patriarchate. “Ecumenic- ity” refers to the leadership role of the patriarch of Istanbul (Constantinople) among Orthodox churches in fostering a supranational or cosmopolitan vision...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2014) 25 (4): 64–82.
Published: 01 December 2014
... structures, allowing them to challenge the state authority and secular statecraft. This essay explores three of the leading religious and nationalist student movements in Turkey and Egypt in the 1970s. Ali Erken is lecturer at the Institute of Middle East Studies, Marmara University, Istanbul...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2007) 18 (1): 135–154.
Published: 01 March 2007
... in Turkey occurring between 1927 and 1935 and a third between 1960 and 1965, as shown in official statistics.5 During the 1960s, the Christians were reduced from 230,000 to 206,000, and the Greek Orthodox Christian community of Istanbul decreased by 21,000, mainly due to forced expulsions...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2008) 19 (3): 68–87.
Published: 01 September 2008
... with windfall profits from the unexpected high price of oil from 2005 to 2007.3 In November 2005, Prince Muhammad bin Rashid al-Makhtum of Dubai, with eighty Dubai and UAE businessmen in tow, descended on Istanbul to sign a deal to invest $300 million in an office and business complex con- sisting of two...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2006) 17 (4): 13–45.
Published: 01 December 2006
... Treaty Organization summit held in Istanbul in June 2004 confirmed Turkey’s acceptance of and eagerness to participate in the WMEI. The negotiations carried on at the summit confirmed to the Turks that NATO countries agreed to extend their responsibilities and obligations into the Arab world...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2006) 17 (2): 1–6.
Published: 01 June 2006
.... There are few people in the West who believe that Turkey could join Europe while mobs, instigated by the notorious “Gray Wolves,” harass the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians. The patriarchate has been in Istanbul since it was founded by Saint Andrew the Apostle. It survived wars...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2014) 25 (2): 131–151.
Published: 01 June 2014
... to build residential houses on it, he had been unable to convince the Istanbul municipality to rezone it. According to the prime minister, Dogan brought this matter up, asked for assistance, and threatened that, if help was not forthcoming, he would use his media outlets to smear the prime...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2008) 19 (4): 14–28.
Published: 01 December 2008
... of the problems facing the troubled Turkish accession talks. Over the years, attention has been focused on the state of human rights in Turkey, including the rights of minorities like the Greeks of Istanbul and the Kurds and the rights of the Eastern Orthodox ecumenical patriarchate. In this essay I...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2016) 27 (2): 47–66.
Published: 01 June 2016
.... 5. Hikmet Özdemir, Turgut Ozal: Biyografi (Istanbul: Dogan, 2014), 199 – 202. 50  Mediterranean Quarterly: June 2016 mous with people tasked with implementing projects identified by the leader rather than as individual producers of change themselves. Second, many of the social groups...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2004) 15 (4): 88–99.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Ahmet Içduygu Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Ahmet Içduygu is professor of international relations at the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Koc University, Istanbul. Demographic Mobility and Turkey: Migration Experiences and Government Responses...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2008) 19 (3): 1–5.
Published: 01 September 2008
... the rug by the international community, much less by the Turkish government. The patriarchate, one of the original seven established by Christ’s disciples, is the fountainhead of 380 million Orthodox faithful, and its presence in Istanbul was guaranteed by the Treaty of Lausanne. It has been...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2010) 21 (3): 8–15.
Published: 01 September 2010
... of the attempted subjugation of one faith by another. It was erected hundreds of years before Saint Peter’s in Rome, but in the fifteenth century five minarets were planted on top of it and ever since have pierced Istanbul’s skies. As Bob Simon noted on the Sixty Minutes broadcast of 8 December 2009...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2006) 17 (2): 53–71.
Published: 01 June 2006
... 8. Masami Arai, Turkish Nationalism in the Young Turk Era (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), 64. 9. Ibid., 65 – 6. 10. Serif Mardin, Jon Turklerin Siyasi Fikirleri: 1985 – 1908 [Political Ideas of the Young Turks: 1985 – 1908] (Istanbul: Iletisim Yayınları, 1983), 58. 11. Considering...