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- Title
The Environment and Early Influences Shaping Political Thought of Niyazi Berkes in British Cyprus, 1908-1922.
- Authors
Dinçşahin, Şakir
- Abstract
Niyazi Berkes was born on 21 September 1908 in Nicosia/Lefkoşa, the capital of Cyprus. Naturally, his intellectual personality began to be shaped by the social and political context on the island as well as the empire which was in the process of imperial change. As a result of the turmoil created by the British rule, the Young Turk Revolution, the First World War, and the Turkish national struggle, the Greek and the Turkish identities for the Orthodox and the Muslim communities, respectively, were constructed. Niyazi Berkes, who was born and raised in this turbulent period, developed the Turkish national identity that laid the foundations of his patriotism among the Muslim community. But in the early years of his long life, the social and political context of Cyprus also planted the seeds of his liberal-mindedness.
- Subjects
CYPRUS; BERKES, Niyazi; POLITICAL science; NATIONALISM; NATIONAL character; ITTIHAT ve Terakki Cemiyeti; WORLD War I; POLITICAL change; BRITISH rule of Cyprus, 1878-1960; CYPRIOT politics &; government
- Publication
Journal of Cyprus Studies, 2009, Vol 15, Issue 37, p65
- ISSN
1303-2925
- Publication type
Article