“The Peloponnese Revolt” through Ottoman sources
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“The Peloponnese Revolt” through Ottoman sources
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16 November 2021
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The Peloponnese Revolt, considered a defeat in Turkish collective memory, is not extensively mentioned in Turkish history books. If a more extensive report was made, this would mean the official recognition of the uprising that arose from the Greek liberation movement. This period is raised subtly in Turkish history books because it would entail projecting a revolutionary movement that marked the destruction of the Ottoman Empire from within as a victory of independence in the memory of the Turkish nation. Because the first traitorous people who destroyed the state from within were the Greeks, who were considered a millet-i sadıka in Turkish public opinion, the Peloponnese revolt in 1821 became a “selected trauma”. Thus the Peloponnese revolt in 1821 is the starting point that formed the first image of the “Greek traitor” in the Turkish community. The Peloponnese revolt, which could be characterized as a “trauma” in the national memory, portrayed the Greeks with images as unreliable, dependent on foreigners, traitors. The Peloponnese revolt in the Turkish national memory is far from considered a just resistance movement against the Ottoman Empire. It is the narrative of a national trauma and perhaps a betrayal.
(Edited abstract from organiser’s website)
(Edited abstract from organiser’s website)
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