Emin Aslan Özbek

Emin Aslan Özbek

Life After the Catastrophe: Imperial Heritage in Southern Marmara

The most striking characteristic of Anatolian refugee memory was not the nostalgia for lost homelands but the extremely charitable depiction of former neighbors. When asked about the quality of inter-communal relations in Anatolia, the refugees usually responded with the definitive but simple claim ‘we got on well with the Turks’ (kala pernousame me tous Tourkouṣ) or used very similar wording.…