Dimitri Kitsikis
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Athens
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, Greece
Greece
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) is a Greek Turkologist, Professor of International Relations and Geopolitics. He has also published poetry in French and Greek.
Life
D. Kitsikis is a Turkologist and Professor of International Relations and Geopolitics at the University of OttawaOttawa
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in Canada
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since 1970, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Royal Society of Canada
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; he received his doctoral degree in 1963 from the Sorbonne
Sorbonne
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, Paris
Paris
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. He derives his origin from a notable Greek-Orthodox
Eastern Orthodox Church
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family of intellectuals and acclaimed professionals of 19th-century Greece. He holds both French and Canadian citizenships .
During the Greek civil war, at the age of 12, he was sent to a boarding school in Paris, by Octave Merlier
Octave Merlier
Octave Merlier was an expert on the Modern Greek language.Merlier was born at Roubaix. In Paris from 1918-19 he studied at the Sorbonne and École pratique des hautes études under the tutelage of Antonius Meillet and Joseph Vendyres.He served as director of the Institut français d'Athènes from...
, the head of the French Institute in Athens, because his mother had been condemned to death as a communist fighter. He stayed in France for 23 years with his British wife Anne Hubbard, the daughter of a chief justice, whom he had married in Scotland
Scotland
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in 1955, with his two first children, Tatiana and Nicolas. He was expelled from the French University for his active participation as a Maoist in the French student revolt of May 1968. Since 1958, Dimitri Kitsikis had traveled to the P.R. of China
China
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where he became a committed Maoist. He was then promoted to associate and later to full professor, after being invited to Canada in 1970 by the University of Ottawa. Since then, he has been living and working in Ottawa as well as in Athens.
Since he was a child he had an idée fixe. He wanted not only to reconcile Greeks and Turks, but also to unite them into a Greek Turkish Confederation and to revive the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
. A devout Orthodox Christian
Eastern Orthodox Church
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, he came to sympathise with the Turkish religion of Bektashism
Bektashism
Bektashi Order or Bektashism is an Islamic Sufi order founded in the 13th century by the Persian saint Haji Bektash Veli. In addition to the spiritual teachings of Haji Bektash Veli the order was significantly influenced during its formative period by both the Hurufis as well as the...
-Alevi
Alevi
The Alevi are a religious and cultural community, primarily in Turkey, constituting probably more than 15 million people....
sm and sought to ally it with Orthodoxy, in order to form a basis for a future political union between Athens
Athens
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and Ankara
Ankara
Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....
. Believing in the collaboration of religious communities, as in the millet system of the Ottoman Empire, he worked closely with shia Muslims in Iran
Iran
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, Jews in Israel
Israel
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and Hindu vaishnavs in India
India
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. His elder son Nicolas has been a Vaishnav since 1984 and lives with his Hindu wife in the Vaishnav community of Gainesville, Florida
Florida
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. Although a member of the official Church of Greece, he always sympathised with the Old-Calendarist movement, the adherents of which reject the Church’s use of the Gregorian (New) calendar and maintain a traditionalist attitude towards Christian life and worship. As Orthodoxy prevailed over the heresy of Iconoclasm in the 9th century and restored the use of the icon in Christian worship, he stands convinced that the Old Calendar will once again be adopted by those Orthodox Churches which rejected it in the earlier part of the 20th century.
Since the 1970s he has taught Chinese and Turkish history, political ideologies and geopolitics at a number of universities in the West. His plethora of books have been translated in many languages, while articles concerning his work have been published in Chinese, the Balkan languages, German, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian. He also taught at the Universities of Boğaziçi in Istanbul
Istanbul
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and Bilkent in Ankara, where he became one of the closest friends and advisers of the President of the Turkish Republic, Turgut Özal
Turgut Özal
Halil Turgut Özal was Prime Minister of Turkey and President of Turkey . As Prime Minister, he transformed the economy of Turkey by paving the way for the privatization of many state enterprises.-Early life and career:...
. In Greece, he was resident researcher at the National Institute of Social Studies and taught at Deree College
Deree College
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, the American College in Athens.
He is a public figure in Greece and had been a close friend and advisor of Greek
Greece
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Premier Konstantinos Karamanlis senior in the 1960s and 70s. He contributes regularly with political articles to Greek magazines and, since 1996, publishes in Athens a Greek quarterly journal of Geopolitics named after his civilisation model, «Endiamese Perioche, Ἐνδιάμεση Περιοχή» or “Intermediate Region”.
Named after his father, who died in 1978, the “Nikos Kitsikis Library and Archives” resides in the home of family member, the former high commissioner of Smyrna Aristeides Stergiades (1861–1949), in Herakleion, Crete
Crete
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. Dimitri Kitsikis was honoured by the Greek State in 2006. The latter established and financed the “Dimitri Kitsikis Public Foundation and Library” in Athens.
Philosophy, Thought, Poetry and Achievements
Dimitri Kitsikis, since the 1960s, has been the recognised theorist, first in Greece and then in Turkey, of the idea of a Greek-Turkish Confederation, which he has promoted by influencing statesmen, politicians, journalists, artists and thinkers in both countries. His books in Turkish became best sellers in TurkeyTurkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
and were praised by the Prime Minister of Turkey. He kept close ties with Prime Ministers Konstantinos Karamanlis senior of Greece and Turgut Özal
Turgut Özal
Halil Turgut Özal was Prime Minister of Turkey and President of Turkey . As Prime Minister, he transformed the economy of Turkey by paving the way for the privatization of many state enterprises.-Early life and career:...
of Turkey as well as the Chinese leaders Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...
and Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping
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. His books in Greek created one of the greatest controversies ever encountered in Greek historiography. They were even debated in the Greek Parliament. The well-established notion of Greeks enslaved by Turks, as well as a series of beliefs on the Ottoman Empire that had been traditionally taught in schools and universities throughout Greece, such as the story of the so-called “secret school,” were strongly questioned. While his father, Nikos Kitsikis, rector of the Polytechnical School, was a Leftist Member of Parliament, Senator and elected Mayor of Athens, Dimitri Kitsikis is averse towards the parliamentary system, which he regards as foreign to the Greek model of a government by the people or laocracy, Greek “λαοκρατία”.
He has been the initiator in France of the branch of the History of International Relations that deals with propaganda
Propaganda
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and pressure as a government weapon of foreign policy
Foreign policy
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. He also opened the way to the study of technocracy in international politics. He has insisted that religion is an essential component of international politics and strove by conferences and other means to facilitate the collaboration between the four main religions of Judaism
Judaism
Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...
, Christianity
Christianity
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, Islam
Islam
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and Hinduism
Hinduism
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. He organised Orthodox
Eastern Orthodox Church
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dialogues with Iranian Shiites and Indian Hindus. He worked with Israeli Jews and fundamentalist Catholics from Quebec
Quebec
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, where he, along with his students, produced the quarterly journal “Aquila” (eagle) which, with a double-headed eagle on the front cover promoted the Byzantine imperial idea amongst catholic circles.He also worked closely with the Fethullah Gülen
Fethullah Gülen
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Sunni Muslim Movement (See Gülen's "Dialog of Civilizations Platform"). But everywhere and at all times, the idea of a global hellenism is prevalent in his works and his teaching.
He created a model for a new approach of the three political ideologies of Liberalism
Liberalism
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, Fascism
Fascism
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and Communism
Communism
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, and has published on the history of China
China
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. He is the founder of the branch of study known as Photohistory.
He is also a recognised poet with six collections of poetry published by Pierre Jean Oswald (Paris), Naaman (Québec), Kedros (Κέδρος), Hestia (Ἑστία) and Akritas (Ἀκρίτας). In 1991 he was honored with the first Greek-Turkish prize for poetry Abdi İpekçi
Abdi Ipekçi
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, a Turkish journalist who had been shot dead by terrorists. Some of his poetry books, namely “Omphalos” (1977), “l’Orocc dans l’âge de Kali
Kali
' , also known as ' , is the Hindu goddess associated with power, shakti. The name Kali comes from kāla, which means black, time, death, lord of death, Shiva. Kali means "the black one". Since Shiva is called Kāla - the eternal time, Kālī, his consort, also means "Time" or "Death" . Hence, Kāli is...
” (1985) and “le Paradis perdu sur les barricades” (1989–1993), became part of an anthology of 32 Canadian poets in the book by H. Bouraoui and J. Flamand. His poetic work was included in the Dictionnaire des citations littéraires de l’Ontario français, depuis 1960. His poems were also used in the books by the Greek artist Georgette Kambani.
Kitsikis regards the Greek language as the cornerstone of planetary civilization, and for this reason he deems it an honour for one to be able to write in Greek. He believes that the treatment of the language should be taken out of the hands of Greek philologists who are currently destroying it. He defends the continued use of polytonic Greek
Greek diacritics
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and traditional spelling, as well as the freedom to write in whichever literary tone one chooses. He regards as erroneous only the implementation of a Greek form not used from the time of Homer
Homer
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to today.
He is the founder of four concepts setting a novel approach for the history of the Greek-Turkish Area to be understood: a) The “Intermediate Region
Intermediate Region
An established geopolitical model set forth in the 1970s by the Greek historian Dimitri Kitsikis, professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada. According to this model, the Eurasian continent is composed of not only two civilisational regions, that is, Western and Eastern , but also a third...
” (Endiamese Perioche, Ἐνδιάμεση Περιοχή) of civilisation, extending from the Adriatic Sea to the Indus River, between the Euro-American West and the Hindu-Chinese East. b) Eastern Party (Ἀνατολικὴ Παράταξις) versus Western Party (Δυτικὴ Παράταξις) as an antagonist couple; c) Hellenoturkism (Ἑλληνοτουρκισμός) as an ideology and as a phenomenon of culture for the last one thousand years; d) Bektashi
Bektashi
Bektashi Order or Bektashism is an Islamic Sufi order founded in the 13th century by the Persian saint Haji Bektash Veli. In addition to the spiritual teachings of Haji Bektash Veli the order was significantly influenced during its formative period by both the Hurufis as well as the...
-Alevi
Alevi
The Alevi are a religious and cultural community, primarily in Turkey, constituting probably more than 15 million people....
religious origin of the Ottoman Dynasty, the islamisation of which developed hand-in-hand with its secularisation and westernisation.
In 2007, his book "A Comparative History of Greece and China from Antiquity to the Present" was published. The book is notable in that it homes in on the relationship between these two civilisations throughout their entire history spanning three millennia. The study raises two concepts: 1) the Greek-Chinese civilisation in a global context and 2) its political expression during the last 2500 years, that is, ecumenical empire as a glorified organisational model.
He is re-married to Ada (Ἀδαμαντία), coming originally from historical Mystras
Mystras
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, in Laconia, Peloponnese, whom he has two children with, Agis and Kranay.
The Dimitri Kitsikis Public Foundation
The Dimitri Kitsikis Public Foundation in Athens, Greece, was formally established under Presidential Decree 129, A 190 (pp. 3425, 3430-3431). The Presidential Decree, published September 15, 2008 in the Gazette of the Government of Greece (ΦΕΚ), can be found at the following link:Gazette of the Government of Greece (ΦΕΚ) A 190
Published works
(Excluding articles)- Propagande et pressions en politique internationale. La Grèce et ses revendications à la Conférence de la Paix, 1919-1920 – Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1963.
- Yunan propagandası –İstanbul, Meydan Neşriyat, 1964. (2nd edition : İstanbul, Kaynak Kitaplar,1974)
- « La Grèce électorale », International Guide to Electoral Statistics (edited by Stein Rokkan and Jean Meyriat), Paris, Mouton, 1969.
- « La question chypriote », Encyclopaedia Universalis – Paris, vol.4, 1969.
- « De la Grèce byzantine à la Grèce contemporaine », Encyclopaedia Universalis – Paris, vol. 7, 1970.
- « Information et Décision. La Grèce face à l’invasion allemande dans les Balkans, 1940-1941», in La Guerre en Méditerranée – Paris, Centre national de la Recherche scientifique, 1971.
- « Nationalisme dans les Balkans : Etude comparée des révolutions turque de 1908 et grecque de 1909 », The Canadian Historical Association. Historical Papers 1971.
- Le rôle des experts à la Conférence de la Paix. Gestation d’une technocratie en politique internationale - Ottawa, Editions de l’Université d’Ottawa, 1972.
- « Evolution de l’élite politique grecque », Social Stratification and Development in the Mediterranean Basin (edited by M. B. Kiray) –Paris and The Hague, Mouton, 1973.
- Ἡ Ἑλλάς τῆς 4ης Αὐγούστου καί αἱ Μεγάλαι Δυνάμεις. Τά ἀρχεῖα τοῦ Ἑλληνικοῦ Ὑπουργείου Ἐξωτερικῶν, 1936-1941 - Athens, Ikaros, 1974. (2nd edition : Athens, Eleuthere Skepsis, 1990).
- « Greece », Balkanistica (edited by Kenneth E. Naylor) – Ann Arbor, Slavica Publishers, 1974.
- «Eleuthère Vénizélos», Hommes d’Etat célèbres – Paris, (edited by Sorbonne professor François Crouzet, Editions Mazenod, vol. 5, 1975.
- Omphalos, Poème – Paris, Pierre Jean Oswald, 1977.
- Ἑλλάς καί ξένοι, 1919-1967. Ἀπό τά ἀρχεῖα τοῦ Ἑλληνικοῦ Ὑπουργείου Ἐξωτερικῶν - Athens, Hestia, 1977.
- Συγκριτικὴ Ἱστορία Ἑλλάδος καὶ Τουρκίας στὸν 20ό αἰῶνα - Athens, Hestia, 1978. (2nd edition supplemented : Hestia, 1990. 3rd edition: Hestia, 1998).
- « Grande Idée et hellénoturquisme. Essai d’interprétation nouvelle de l’histoire néo-grecque », Actes du IIe Congrès international des Etudes du Sud-Est européen, 1970 – Athènes, Association internationale des Etudes du Sud-Est européen, 1978, tome III.
- Ὀμφαλός, Ποίημα - Athens, Kedros, 1979.
- Greece :Communism in a Non Western Setting», Communism and Political Systems in Western Europe (edited by D. E. Albright) – Boulder (Colorado), Westview Press, 1979, XXII.
- Yırmı Asırda Karşılaştırmalı Türk-Yunan Tarihi – İstanbul, Türk Dünyası Araştırmaları Dergisi, II-8, 1980. (20th Century Turkish-Greek Comparative History).
- Ἱστορία τοῦ ἑλληνοτουρκικοῦ χώρου ἀπό τόν Ἐ. Βενιζέλο στὸν Γ. Παπαδόπουλο, 1928-1973 - Athens, Hestia, 1981. (2nd edition supplemented : Hestia, 1995).
- « The Turkish-Greek War, 1919-1922, in World Perspective », International Conference on Atatürk. Proceedings - Vol. 2, doc.43, Istanbul, Bogaziçi University Press, 1981.
- « Bulgaria in Balkan History between the Two World Wars » , Pervi Mejdunaroden Kongres po Bulgaristika Dokladi (First International Conference on Bulgarian Studies), Sofia, Bulgarian Academy of the Sciences, 1982.
- L’ Orocc, dans l’âge de Kali. Poème – Sherbrooke (Québec), Naaman, 1985, illustrated.
- L’Empire ottoman – Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1985. (Collection « Que sais-je ? », no. 2222). 2nd ed. 1991. 3rd ed. 1994.
- « L’espace ottoman dans l’esprit de Charles de Moüy, dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle », L’Empire ottoman, la République de Turquie et la France (edited by H. Batu) –Paris - Istanbul, Isis, 1986.
- « Κύπρος 1955-1959 : Τριτοκοσμικὴ συνειδητοποίηση καὶ ἐπιπτώσεις ἐπὶ τῆς Ἑλλάδος », Cypriot Studies Society. Proceedings of the 2nd International Cypriological Conference– vol. 3, Nicosia, 1987.
- Greek Synthetic Thought. An Opposition to Western Divisive Thought of the Renaissance – San Francisco, Bhaktivedanta Institute, 1988.
- Ἱστορία τῆς Ὀθωμανικῆς Αὐτοκρατορίας, 1280-1924 - Athens, Hestia, 1988, 244 pages (2nd ed., 1989, 3rd ed. expanded, 1996.
- « Populism, Eurocommunism and the Communist Party of Greece », Communist Parties in Western Europe (edited by M. Waller) – Oxford, Blackwell, 1988.
- « Le degré de puissance de l’Empire ottoman, au cours de la première guerre mondiale», La Moyenne Puissance au XXe siècle (edited by J.-C. Allain) – Paris, Institut d’Histoire des Conflits contemporains, 1988.
- El Imperio otomano – México, Fondo de Cultura Econόmica, 1989.
- Ὁ Ἄνδυς στὸν καιρὸ τῆς Καλῆς. Ποίημα - Athens, Hestia, 1989. (Illustrated by Georgette Κambani).
- « Les Turcs et la mer Egée : essai de géohistoire », Turquie, Moyen-Orient, Communauté européenne (edited by J. Thobie) – Paris, L’Harmattan, 1989.
- « Dimitri Kitsikis, œuvre poétique », Ecriture franco-ontarienne d’aujourd’hui (edited by H.Bouraoui and J.Flamand) – Ottawa, Les Editions du Vermillon, 1989.
- Ἡ τρίτη ἰδεολογία καὶ ἡ Ὀρθοδοξία - Athens, Ακρίτας, 1990. (2nd edition, Hestia, 1998).
- «Ὀθωμανικὴ Αὐτοκρατορία», and «Τουρκία», Παγκόσμια Ἱστορία - Athens, τόμος Β' , Ἐκδοτικὴ Ἀθηνῶν, 1990.
- Le paradis perdu sur les barricades. Poème – Athens, Akritas, 1993. (Illustrated by Turkish artist Mürşide İçmeli).
- «The Spreading of Western Satanism in Islamic and Orthodox Societies », First International Symposium on Orthodoxy and Islam 1990, Athens – Tehran, Iran, Center for International Cultural Studies, 1994.
- «Les anciens calendaristes, depuis 1923, et la montée de l’intégrisme en Grèce», Grèce : identités, territoires, voisinages, modernisations, (edited by P.Y. Péchoux), special edition of CEMOTI, no. 17, 1994.
- « Le concept de relations internationales et le service diplomatique ottoman au XXe siècle », Aspects of Ottoman History (edited by Amy Singer) – Jerusalem, The Hebrew University - Magnes Press, 1994.
- The Old Calendarists and the Rise of Religious Conservatism in Greece – Etna, California, Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, 1995.
- « Faith as Seen by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and its Impact on Westernized Third World Societies », Second International Symposium on Orthodoxy and Islam 1992, Athens – Tehran, Iran, Center for International Cultural Studies, 1995.
- « Alevism as a Link between Orthodoxy and Islam », Third International Symposium on Orthodoxy and Islam 1994, Tehran – Tehran, Iran, Center for International Cultural Studies, 1995, IV-97
- Πτώση. Ποίημα - Athens, Ἀκρίτας, 1996. (Illustrated by Georgette Κambani).
- O Império otomano – Porto, Portugal, Rés Editora, 1996.
- « Ἡ εὐρωπαϊκὴ σκέψη τοῦ Παναγιώτη Κανελλόπουλου », Nea Hestia. A tribute to Panagiotes Kanellopoulos, 1902-1986 - Athens, Hestia, 1996.
- Türk-Yunan İmparatorluğu. Arabölge gerçeği ışığında Osmanlı Tarihine bakış – İstanbul, İletişim Yayınları, 1996. (The Turkish-Greek Empire. An inquiry into Ottoman History through the prism of the Intermediate Region).
- Ἐνδιάμεση Περιοχή – Quarterly journal issued and directed by Dimitri Kitsikis since the Fall of 1996.
- Osmanlijsko carstvo – Belgrad, Yugoslavia, Platon Editions, 1998.
- « Ἐνδιάμεση Περιοχὴ καὶ Ἑλληνισμός : ἀνθρωπογένεση καὶ ἀνθρωποσυντέλεια », Minutes of the 2nd Pan-Eleian Conference (edited by Anastos Demetropoulos) – Ancient Olympia, 1998.
- « Δημήτρης Κιτσίκης, Λέσβιος ποιητής »,Αnthology of Lesbian Poets (edited by Costas G. Missios) - Mytilene, 1998, vol. 10.
- « The Intermediate Region : A Common Civilization between the Adriatic Sea and the Indus River », Dialogue of Civilizations ? – Tehran, Iran, 1999.
- «Multiculturalism in the Ottoman Empire : The Alevi Religious and Cultural Community », Multiculturalism and the History of International Relations from the 18th Century up to the Present (edited by Pierre Savard and Brunello Vigezzi) – Milano, Editioni Unicopli & Les Presses de l’ Université d’ Ottawa, 1999.
- « Women in Christian and Muslim Families », Woman and Family in Christian Orthodoxy and Islam - (Fourth International Congress on Orthodoxy and Islam, Athens, 1997) – Athens, Publications of the Greek Iranian League, 1999.
- « Géopolitique de la Région intermédiaire », Société Royale du Canada. Académie des Lettres et des Sciences humaines. Présentations – Ottawa, vol.52, 1999.
- Osmanskata Imperija – Sofia, Bulgaria, Kama Editions, 2000.
- « Ἡ Ἐνδιάμεση Περιοχή », Γεωπολιτικὴ καὶ Ἑλλάδα (edited by K. Kouros) – Athens, Esoptron, 2001.
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