PHOCAEA 1914

Phocaea, June 11-13, 1914

What happened?

Why did it happen?

A question of concealment?

Available documents and archives

Félix Sartiaux’s testimony

Charles Manciet’s testimony

Celal Bayar & Eşref Kuşcucaşı’s memoirs

Newspapers

Greek MFA Telegrams

GENERAL HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Ten years of war: from the Balkan Wars to the “Catastrophe”/ War of Independence (1912-1922)

Violence in a crumbling Empire

Rival ethno-religious nationalisms

The Committee of Union and Progress

Teşkilât-ı Mahsûsa (Special Organisation)

The economic boycotts

1914: a prelude to the Armenian Genocide?

HISTORY & MEMORY STUDIES

Oral History

Collective Trauma

National narratives & Memory

RESEARCH

Emre Erol’s research on Eski Foça

Oktay Özel on the Ottoman Archives

Efi Gazi on the Centre for Asia Minor Studies

The Engin Berber Archive

The Sartiaux photography collection

Sklavou & Tatakis on the Film Documentary “Events in Phocaea, 1914”