Konstantinos Gogos

University Teacher (PD 407/80)

kgogos[at]turkmas.uoa[dot]gr

3 hours per week

Course Objectives

The course aims to familiarise students with the concepts and policies of the Turkish state towards non-Turkish, non-Muslim groups and minorities; it also wishes to demonstrate the different manifestations and trends within the Muslim majority.

Course Structure

This course deals with the policies of the Turkish state toward ethnic-religious groups and minorities as well as with aspects of Islam in Turkey. The course deals with the cases of the following groups: Armenians, Greeks, Jews, Kurds, and Alevis, as well as with the institutional (state) Islam and the Tarikat–manifestations of Islam.

The course follows both an historical and a geopolitical methodology.

Assessment

Final written examination (100%), or alternatively

Mid-term paper (40%) plus final examination (60%)

Required Textbooks

Γκιουβέν, Ντιλέκ, Εθνικισμός, κοινωνικές μεταβολές και μειονότητες: Τα επεισόδια εναντίον των μη μουσουλμάνων της Τουρκίας (6/7 Σεπτεμβρίου 1955) (Εστία, Αθήνα, 2006) [Güven, Dilek, 6-7 Eylül Olayları: Cumhuriyet Dönemi Azınlık Politikaları ve Stratejileri Bağlamında (İletişim, İstanbul, 2006)]

Μάζης, Ιωάννης Θ., Μυστικά Ισλαμικά Τάγματα και Πολιτικο-Οικονομικό Ισλάμ στη σύγχρονη Τουρκία (Προσκήνιο, Αθήνα, 2002)

Bibliography

Aktar, Ayhan, Varlık vergisi ve “Türkleştirme” politikaları (İstanbul, 2000)

Üstel, Füsun, “Makbul Vatandaş” ın peşinde – ΙΙ. Meşrutiyet’ten Bugüne Vatandaşlık Eğitimi, (İstanbul 2011 [2004])

Bali, Rifat, A scapegoat for all seasons: The Dönmes or Crypto-Jews of Turkey (Istanbul and Piscataway, NJ, 2010)

Akçam, Taner, Μια επαίσχυντη πράξη: Η γενοκτονία των Αρμενίων και το ζήτημα της τουρκικής ευθύνης (Αθήνα, 2007)

Βρυώνης, Σπύρος, Ο μηχανισμός της καταστροφής: Το τουρκικό πογκρόμ της 6ης-7ης Σεπτεμβρίου 1955 και ο αφανισμός της ελληνικής κοινότητας της Κωνσταντινούπολης (Αθήνα, 2007)

Gürbey, Gülistan, “The urgency of post-nationalist perspectives: ‘Turkey for the Turks’ or an open society? On the Strohmeier, Martin & Lale Yalçın-Ηeckman, Die Kurden: Geschichte, Politik, Kultur (München, 2000)

Hans Lukas Kieser (ed.), Turkey Beyond Nationalism: Towards Post-Nationalist Identities, (London, 2006)

Bozarslan, Hamit, “Kurds and the Turkish State”, in R. Kasaba (ed.), Cambridge History of Modern Turkey, (Cambridge, 2008), pp. 333-356.