Selected Publications
- “In a State of Déjà Vu: Turkey Facing the Refugee Problem,” in Flight & Migration and Social Transformation Processes, (ed.) S. Goebel, Berlin: Springer V.S., (Forthcoming)
- “Donald, Me and the Uncommon People,” in Festschrift for Donald Quataert, (ed.) S. Karahasanoğlu et al, İstanbul: Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2016, pp. 109-120.
- (With Seven Ağır), “Gedik: What’s in a Name,” in Bread from the Lion’s Mouth: Artisans Struggling for a Livelihood in Ottoman Cities, (ed.) Suraiya Faroqhi, London: Berghahn Books, 2015, pp. 217-236. 17.
- Diplomacy and Displacement: Reconsidering the Turco-Greek Exchange of Populations, 1922-1934, New York and London: Routledge, 2012 (paperback edition).
- (With Eyüp Özveren) “Procurement of Naval Supplies during the Sixteenth Century: Venetian Arsenale and the Ottoman Tersane Compared,” Making Waves in the Mediterranean sulle onde del Mediterraneo, (eds.) M. D’Angelo, G. Harlaftis and C. Vassallo, Messina: Instituto di Studi Storici, Gaetano Salvemini, 2010, pp. 193-206.
FRIAS Project
The Sources of the Global Refugee Regime: Neuilly, Lausanne, and Potsdam in Historical Perspective.
I have long been interested in the population transfers during the interwar period with a particular focus on the voluntary and mandatory exchanges of populations that took place in the aftermath of WWI in the post-Ottoman space in southeastern Europe. The Treaty of Neuilly which led to the voluntary exchange of populations between Greece and Bulgaria in 1919 and then the Treaty of Lausanne that caused the forceful exchange of some 2 million people between Greece and Turkey in 1923 formally authorized the nation-states to shuffle populations at their convenience with a view to attaining ethno-religious homogeneity. After WWII, the Treaty of Potsdam brought about yet another massive wave of displacement across Central and Eastern Europe. Potsdam became the third leg of the tripod that constituted the template of population transfers in Europe. My proposed project aims to explore these three diplomatic agreements with a view to tracing the elements of continuity and discontinuity in their core principles and then showing how each of these documents had their unique contributions to the construction and reconstruction of the notions of ‘population transfer’ and ‘refugee’ not only at home but also beyond their national borders of implementation.