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Tsiamtsika, D. Nektaria (2020)

The status of Greek women in 1940's, 1950's and 1960's

Master thesis | Middle Eastern Studies (MA)

The goal of this thesis is to focus on the Greek women of Istanbul and how all these political events influenced their lives, while also providing an analysis of their language choices and their status in the society of Istanbul. The analyses will be based on a set of letters of written by Sophia to her daughter Elpida who moved from Istanbul to Netherlands in 1954. In addition to these letters, other sources of data include interviews of five Istanbul Greek women, information from the Society of Greeks of Istanbul and books that have collected testimonies, newspaper articles and report of the Greek consul and speeches of Turkish officials. It can be concluded from all these source materials that the Greek women of Istanbul were unequivocally influenced by the political events of 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s in distinctive ways.

Minority

Greek

Rum

Istanbul

Turkey

20th century

women.

Author

Tsiamtsika, D. Nektaria

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Modern Middle East

Supervisors

Deniz, Tat

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en