turkish-greek civic dialogue - AEGEE Europe

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de L’Europe
Kostas Tsitselikis (University of Thrace– Komotini)
(Organisation of the Muslim Communities in
Greece: Continuities and Inconsistencies)
Giorgos Mavromatis (Center of Minority Studies)
(Christian Refugees & Minority Muslims in Greece:
Questions of National Homogenisation &
the Role of Education)
Nükhet Adıyeke (Mersin University)
(The Appearance of Muslim Identity and Relations
between Muslim and Orthodox Communities in
Crete under Ottoman Rule)
Elif Babül (Bosphorus University)
(From Imbros to Gökçeada:
Tracing the Story of an Island)
Q & A
16:00 – 18:30 Round Table:
Population Exchange Reconsidered:
General Assessment chaired by Sefer Güvenç (LMV)
Participants: Ayhan Aktar (Marmara University),
Kemal Arı (Dokuz Eylül University), Hercules Millas
(Athens University of Greece), Lambros Baltsiotis
(KEMO), Filiz Çalışlar Yenişehirlioğlu
(Başkent University)
18:30 Closing Remarks:
LMV
19:00 Farewell Cocktail
OPENING CEREMONY
..................................................................................................................... Ümit İşler
President of Foundation Lausanne Treaty Emigrants
As we all know the two nations living under the same
cultural root for centuries had the same sorrows due
to the wars took place between the years 1912-1922
in Balkans, Aegean Sea and Anatolia. After the most
important breakthrough of our history and the fall of
Ottoman Empire on 30 February 1923, a population
exchange treaty had been signed between Turkish and
Greek governments. Because of the exchange treaty,
nearly two million people from both countries had to
leave their native towns. Everything people had to
go through in this period, left permanent impressions
on people’ minds. Eighty years had passed after the
admission of the population exchange treaty. What
had been lived during the exchange period was
commented differently by the two nations.
One of the aims of the Lozan Mübadilleri Vakfı is to observe our near future
in a scientific way and to consider it without prejudices in an objective look.
We believe with our hearth that the respectful scientists from Greece and
Turkey will consider the exchange with the reflections of the exchange on
literature and with its political, sociological, cultural aspects in an objective
way. This symposium carried through the partnership of AEGEE-Ankara and
Lozan Mübadilleri Vakfı is the first symposium to take place in Turkey about this
subject. We wish that it would become an example for the upcoming works.
We wish this symposium to be help of the fraternity between the two countries
and to have a positive effect on the dialogue between two countries for the
solution of the problems.
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