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
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