A Critical Comparison of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Official Historiographies (1940s to the Present)

Hatay, Mete; Papadakis, Yiannis

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“…Similar with 1960, 1974 is a controversial and unnegotiable date for both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, which has been differently explained and discussed by Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. As Hatay and Papadakis (2012) supported that after 1974 Greek Cypriots have major aim to reunify divided island, while on the Turkish Cypriot side, the stabilizing the partition is an official policy. In this sense, the well-known sentence is starting to share repeatedly among Turkish Cypriots that is to say: 'these two peoples [Greeks and Turks] can never live together in the future, as the past shows the brutal victimization of Turkish Cypriots by Greek Cypriots'.…”

Section: Post-1974 Historiographymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The 1960 is crucial date because of the declaration of Cyprus as an independent state; as Republic of Cyprus, by continuation of the separate objectives of both Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots. As Hatay and Papadakis (2012) explained that the history-writing of this period three Greek Cypriot historians came into prominence who is expressing the official views of the Greek Cypriot side. Konstantinos Spyridakis, Theodoros Papadopoulos and Kostas Kyrris have mentioned their concerned with current political problems emerged in their texts.…”

Section: -1970 Official Historiographiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to both history-writing, there is a common agreement on the idea that the period between 1960 and 1963 was seen as Greek Cypriots were still planning and promoting the idea of enosis. As Hatay & Papadakis (2012) mentioned that although there is a numerous discussion on the EOKA and its activities through their ideological basis, Turkish Resistance Organization (TMT) has no attention regarding the fact it has been established in 1958. Clearly, Küçük (1966) overemphasized the huge demonstration in Turkey, which will be accepted as a well-known symbol lately in the 1970s and afterwards, 'Taksim and Death'.…”

Section: -1970 Official Historiographiesmentioning

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“…In addition, Alasya in his later works, they portrayed Greek Cypriots as traitors and not to be trusted, which Serter (1979) also claimed that since the island has an unfair British administration, many Greeks and Turks left the island. Rather, lately in the history-writing as Hatay and Papadakis (2012) clarified that the books occasionally emotionalized the dead bodies or those to be saved as being the hero of their community by their great defense. In Serter's Cyprus History (1979) book 1974 as one leading Turkey's inevitable intervention, which in Alasya's (1988) book represented as the "Turkish Miracle" seen as "The Judgement Day", that is significant point in history-writing in Turkish Cypriots since his book was used as the standard high-school history textbook.…”

Section: Post-1974 Historiographymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similar to his earlier argument, Alasya found that throughout the Ottoman 'age of decline' in Cyprus, there are external powers which are attributed to the manipulation of foreign agents and the church of Cyprus. As Hatay and Papadakis (2012) point out in Alasya's history textbooks Christians had the freedom to communicate directly with the central government about their grievances as well as their own priests. Alasya (1939) demonstrates his secular Kemalist loyalty by keeping his distance from certain claims of Kemalist historiographies.…”

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Remembering the Past: The Collective Memory and Historigraphies of Cyprus

Çiftçi¹

2018

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The aim of this study is to investigate the politics of memory and the transformations of memories of historiographies in the Cyprus Conflict. I focus on the collective memory conceptualization that invades Cyprus Conflict, and I investigate Cyprus history textbooks from Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot education system. In this regard, the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot memories are mostly based on the historiographies, negative memories of between 1958s and 1963s and the heroic partisan struggle strongly clash with negative counter-memories of 1974. The forced remembering of 1974, the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, which is promoted also by politically institutionalized top-down politics of memory, is created also in the popular, bottom-up memories of the today's negotiations. Such memory politics foster past narratives mostly based on historiographies, creates us and them dichotomy narratives. Moreover, it blurs the negotiation and forgiveness paradigm, when it suddenly becomes the certain point of collective memory of past and present.

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Section: Post-1974 Historiographymentioning

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Section: -1970 Official Historiographiesmentioning

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Agency in waiting: innovation and repetition in a novel Turkish Cypriot nationalist commemoration

Bahceci

2024

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This paper focuses on the Dawn Watch commemoration in northern Cyprus that has been organised since 2010 to mark the anniversary of Turkey's military operation/invasion on 20 July 1974. I argue that the Dawn Watch utilises the innovative ritual practice of ‘keeping watch' to subjectivise participating Turkish Cypriots as the ‘guards/watchmen' who have made Turkey's military presence in Cyprus possible. This novel commemoration seeks to address growing disinterest in Turkish nationalist narratives and commemorations in northern Cyprus, which conventionally reduce Turkish Cypriots to historically unimportant figures who were merely ‘liberated' by Turkey. By adopting the innovative ritual practice of ‘keeping watch', the Dawn Watch provides participants with a new way of participating in an old nationalist narrative.

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English in Northern Cyprus: A sociolinguistic profile

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2022

World Englishes

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Much has been written and said about the roles, functions, and status of English and its diverse implications in local contexts and for people therein. However, Northern Cyprus stands out as a ‘blind spot’ as it is often annexed in studies related to Turkey or diluted within discussions focusing on Cyprus – which collectively leads to limited, partial, and tangential accounts of the complexities embedded in the local context. Departing from this premise, the current paper offers a comprehensive sociolinguistic profile of English in Northern Cyprus. More specifically, it portrays a historical account of the sociolinguistic situation with present‐day connections to statuses, roles, attitudes, functions, domains, policies, and practices in the local context. It is concluded that as the island morphed first into a postcolonial context and later into a partitioned sociopolitical entity, the linguacultural hegemony of English remained in Turkish Cypriots’ linguistic repertoires, collective psyche, and educational curricula.

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A Critical Comparison of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Official Historiographies (1940s to the Present)

Cited by 14 publications

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Remembering the Past: The Collective Memory and Historigraphies of Cyprus

Remembering the Past: The Collective Memory and Historigraphies of Cyprus

Agency in waiting: innovation and repetition in a novel Turkish Cypriot nationalist commemoration

English in Northern Cyprus: A sociolinguistic profile

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