8 REFLECTIONS ON THE IMAGE OF THE TURK IN EUROPE
The first article, that compares the Image of the Turk in two spaces of
Europe between the years 1450 and 1800 has the title Representations of the
Turk in the English and German Speaking Spaces of Europe in Early Modern
Age. This paper was presented in a History Conference, entitled, Die
Kommunikative Konstruktion des Anderen, that was organized in Karl
Franzens Universitaet, Graz, in Austria by Gabriele Haugmoritz and Rudolph
Pelizaeus in
November 2007. The article will be published with some changes
in Germany, in 2010.
The second article, that investigates how Turks were received by
European media in Central Europe and how their intellectual life was presented
to European audiences during the 18 th Century has the title Reflections of the
Intellectual Life of the Turks in the European Media of the 18th Century.
This paper was presented in the Philosophy Faculty of the University of
Ljubljana in a Workshop, entitled, The Image of Franks in Turkey and the
Image ofOsmanlis in Slovenja, organized by Bozidar Jezernic, in September
2007.
The third article, that depicts the reflection of the Turks in the
paintings of two European artists in 18th and 19th centuries, compares them
among themselves and with the representations of Turks by themselves that
appear in Ottoman artworks. It has the title The Memory Between Reality
and Imagination-A Comparison of Memoires of Jean-Baptiste Vanmour and
Jean Leon Gerome of the Ottoman Empire, as Represented in Their
Paintings. This paper was written and presented in the Macedonian Academy
of Sciences and Arts in Skopje, Macedonia, within the scope of
Interpretations: European Research Project for Poetics and Hermeneutics,
sponsored by the UNESCO, organized by Kata Kulavkova, in November
2007, and published by MANU Press, in 2008.
The fourth
article of the book focuses on the Image of the Turk in a
novel of Karl May, the popular author
of the late 19th-early 20th century
German Literature. The article, entitled, The Image of the Turk in Karl May's
Novel 'Von Bagdad nach Stambul' was published in the Journal of
Mediterranean Studies, compiled and edited by Kate Fleet and Ildiko Beller
Hann, and published by Malta Press, in 1995.
The fifth article concentrates on identity issues of the three successive
generations of Turkish migrant authors in Germany and how these are reflected
in their Works. This article is entitled, The Image of 'Self' and the 'Other' in
the Works of the Turkish Migrant Authors in Germany. It was presented in
the Workshop, A Common European Identity in a Multicultured Continent,
jointly organized by SUheyla Artemel and Nedret Kuran, at the Bogazi§i
University Center vor Comparative European Culture and Art, in 1991 and
published in the book Multiculturalism: Identity and Otherness, compiled
and edited by myself, in Bogazi£i University Press in 1997.