Turks

State of exception in the Mediterranean: Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot community

by Moudouros, Nikos

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This book examines the evolution of the state of exception in which the Turkish Cypriot community has developed and how its relationship with Turkey has been transformed. It aims at a comprehensive understanding of the circumstances which led to the emergence of a Turkish Cyprio…

In 1883, one century after the Russian invasion of the Crimea, a wholesale national awakening and modernization drive was initiated by Ismail Bey Gaspirali among the Crimean Tatars. Gaspirali realizing the dire problems faced by his compatriots, envisioned the solution in a tran…

The purpose of this study was to determine how many courses exist, or how much course content exists in Division IA colleges/universities regarding the Armenian Genocide in undergraduate higher education throughout the United States. Armenians throughout the world commemorate th…

When Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453, a group of Venetian humanists, who were both classical scholars and professional politicians, advocated a strong response. Most Venetian politicians, however, preferred to attempt to construct a Christian alliance that could collect…

Throughout history, cultural encounters between the East and the West have led to attempts to struggle with the relations between Self and Other. It is a commonplace that dramatic events such as the fall of Constantinople (renamed Istanbul), the first siege of Vienna in 1529 and…

The ways in which the battle of Lepanto was imagined by contemporaries proves to be a combination and confluence of international and domestic political pressures, celebratory ritual, print practices, and the currency of intellectual ideas. The understanding of the Turkish adver…

This thesis explores the nature of migration and movement between a Black Sea village and the urban and overseas communities formed by its inhabitants. It examines historical reasons for migration from the village and reveals how villagers on the Black Sea first migrated to Amer…

The dissertation examines the history of the Muslims in Bulgaria in the period 1878-1908 with a particular focus on the emergence and development of a cultural and political reform movement among them and the process of their political mobilization. The modern Bulgarian state wa…

This dissertation examines the strategies of constructing religious and racial difference in early modern drama. The plays examined in this study are by the major and minor playwrights of the period. They include, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Robert Daborne, Philip …