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Articles and book chapters

2024

“The Demand for Enosis in the Greek and Cypriot Left and the Soviet Stance: From the Interwar Period to Cyprus Independence”, in Vasilis Panayotopoulos, Yannis Voulgaris, Sotiris Rizas (eds.), Cyprus 1974: Coup D’etat, Invasion, Legacy, Athens: To Vima, pp. 156-173.

“Milli Anlatıdan Sapma: Türkiye İşçi Partisi ve Kıbrıs”, in Alp Yenen and Erik Jan Zurcher (eds.), 100 Kesitle Cumhuriyet Türkiyesi’nin 100 Yılı, Istanbul: İletişim, pp. 265-269.

(with A. Deriziotis), “Preface: Why (Now) a Handbook on Greek-Turkish Relations”, in N. Christofis and A. Derisiotis (eds.), A Century of Greek-Turkish Relations: A Handbook, London: Transnational Press, pp. 11-14.

(with K. Öktem), “The Use and Abuse of History: On Greek-Turkish Relations”, in N. Christofis and A. Derisiotis (eds.), A Century of Greek-Turkish Relations: A Handbook, London: Transnational Press, pp. 15-28.

“Greek-Turkish Relations and Cyprus, 1940s–1990s”, in N. Christofis and A. Derisiotis (eds.), A Century of Greek-Turkish Relations: A Handbook, London: Transnational Press, pp. 179-194.

(with A. Deriziotis), “Post-script”, in N. Christofis and A. Derisiotis (eds.), A Century of Greek-Turkish Relations: A Handbook, London: Transnational Press, pp. 343-344.

“Before and after the 2023 (Double) May Elections: Quo Vadis Turkey”, in N. Christofis (ed.), Elections And Earthquakes: Quo Vadis Turkey?, London: Transnational Press, 2024, pp. 15-31.

(with Seevan Saeed), “Sino-Turkish Relations: Prospects and Challenges”, The Maghreb Review, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 247-279

2023

“Yunan basınının bakış açısından Küçük Asya seferinde ‘öteki’ olarak Türk”, Tarih ve Toplum: Yeni Yaklaşımlar, vol. 22, 2023, pp. 91-107.

“How do Modern Greeks think of Athens and Why?”, 长安学研究, vol. 8, pp. 3-12.

“Turkish Policies vis-à-vis Christians: From Exclusion to Inclusion to Exclusion Again”, in S. Roussos (ed.), From Pluralism to Extinction? Perspectives and Challenges for Christians in the Middle East, London: Transnational Press, pp. 93-112.

“Deviating from the National Narrative: The Workers’ Party of Turkey and Cyprus”, in A. Yenen and E. J. Zürcher (eds.), A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments, Leiden: Leiden University Press, pp. 247-252.

“The Politicisation of the Kurds during the 1960s and the Role of the Left”, in A. Derisiotis, M. Issi and N. Christofis (eds), The Kurds in Turkey: From the Late Ottoman Empire to the Present Day, Patras: University of Patras Press, p. 63-85.

“Securitizing the Aegean: de-Europeanizing Greek-Turkish relations”, in B. Z. Alpan and A. E. Öztürk (eds.), Turkey and the Balkans Between Europeanisation and De-Europeanization, London and New York: Routledge, 2023, pp. 83-100.

2022

“Kemalism vs Erdoğanism: Continuities and Discontinuities in Turkey’s Hegemonic State Ideology”, Middle East Critique (accepted)

(with C. Mais), “Miners and class struggle in interwar Cyprus”, Twentieth Century Communism: A Journal of International History, no. 23, pp. 120-146.

“Securitizing the Aegean: De-Europeanizing Greek–Turkish Relations”, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 83-100.

“The Left, Colonialism, and Nationalism: The Cyprus Case”, in N. Christofis (ed.), Between Nation and Class: The Lefts and the Cyprus Question, 1920-1974, Thessaloniki: Psifides, pp. 21-56.

(with Ahmet Cavit An) “The Turkish Cypriot Left and the Problems of Cooperation with the Greek Cypriot Left”, in N. Christofis (ed.), Between Nation and Class: The Lefts and the Cyprus Question, 1920-1974, Thessaloniki: Psifides, pp. 113-177.

“The Turkish Left and the Cyprus Question during the 1960s: Between Anti-imperialism and Nationalism”, in N. Christofis (ed.), Between Nation and Class: The Lefts and the Cyprus Question, 1920-1974, Thessaloniki: Psifides, pp. 281-336.

“Η επιταχυνόμενη πολιτική κρίση στην Τουρκία του Ερντογάν”, in N. Christofis (ed.), Erdoğan’s ‘New’ Turkey: Before and After the Attempted Coup, Athens: Leader Books, pp. 27-64.

“Introduction: The Kurds in Erdoğan’s ‘New’ Turkey: Domestic and International Implications”, in N. Christofis (ed.), The Kurds in Erdoğan’s “New” Turkey: Domestic and International Implications, New York and London, Routledge, pp. 1-21.

2021

“Bogazici University Protests: A Battle for Academic Freedom, A Battle for Democracy”, Contemporary Issues, vol. 150-151-152, pp. 17-21 (in Greek).

(with A. Logotheti) “Between Political Survival and Regional Power: The Justice and Development Party and Cyprus, 2002-2017”, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies [DOI 10.1080/13530194.2021.1903833].

“From the Global to the Local: Turkey in the Long 60s”, Turkish Historical Review, vol. 12, no. 2-3, pp. 1-23 DOI 10.1163/18775462-bja10020

“‘Turkey will be a second France, unless our demands are satisfied’: Turkish Student Movement in the Long 1960s”, Turkish Historical Review, vol. 12, no. 2-3 DOI: 10.1163/18775462-bja10021

“Coups and State Formation in Turkey”, in J. Jongerden (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Turkey, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 131-143.

“Government and Politics”, in E. Thomopoulos (ed.), Modern Greece, Santa Barbara, California and Denver: Westview, ABC-CLIO, 2021, pp. 69-96.

2020

“Authoritarian Neoliberalism as a Framework to Understand Turkey”, Review of International Affairs, Nicos Poulantzas Institute, vol. 1-2, pp. 137-150 (in Greek).

“Accelerating Political Crisis in Erdoğan’s Turkey”, in N. Christofis (ed.), Erdoğan’s ‘New’ Turkey: Attempted Coup d’état and the Acceleration of Political Crisis, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 1-28.

“The Politicization of Ayia Sofia: From the “Islam in the Nation” to the “Nation in Islam”, Contemporary Issues, vol. 149, pp. 28-31 (in Greek).

“英国和塞浦路斯：从未有过“兵戎相见” [The British and Cyprus: The “Place d’Armes” that Never Was], The Turkish Studies Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, 2020, pp. 50-55 (in Chinese)

“Milliyetçilik ve Anti-Emperyalizmin Arasında: Kıbrıs Meselesinde Yunan ve Türk Solu”, Toplumsal Tarih, vol. 316, pp. 56-61 (in Turkish)

(with B. Li), “新的地理想象和区域形象: 土耳其外交政策再评析” (Geographical Imagination and Regional Image: Reevaluating Turkish Foreign Policy), 当代世界 (Contemporary World), no. 2, February, pp. 20-26 DOI: 10.19422/j.cnki.ddsj.2020.02.003 (in Chinese).

2019

“土耳其近期地方选举及其政治影响” (Recent local elections in Turkey and their political impact), Journal of Fujian Normal University, vol. 3, pp. 62–74 DOI: 1000-5285( 2019) 03-0068-07 (in Chinese).

(with B. Baser and A. E. Öztürk) “The View from Next Door: Greek-Turkish Relations after the Coup Attempt in Turkey”, The International Spectator, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 67-86.

“The State of the Kurds in the ‘New’ Turkey”, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 251-259.

“The Foreign Policy of the ‘New Turkey’: Priorities, Challenges and Contradictions”, New Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-12.

“Restructuring the ‘New Turkey’: Between Kemalism and Erdoğanisation”, Annual Review of History, Society and Politics, vol. 5, 2019, pp. 30-47 (in Greek)

“War, Revolution, and Diplomacy: The October Revolution of 1917 and the Turkish Anatolian Resistance Movement, 1919-1922”, in D. Stamatopoulos (ed.), European Revolutions and the Ottoman Balkans: War, Nationalism and Empire from Napoleon to the Bolsheviks, London and New York: Bloomsbury/I. B. Tauris and BIAA, pp. 243-262.

“Turkey’s Justice and Development Government vis-à-vis the Muslim Minority in Greece”, in M. Hatay and Z. Tziarras (eds.), Kinship and Diasporas in Turkish Foreign Policy: Examples from Europe, the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean, Nicosia: PRIO Cyprus, pp. 59-71.

“World System Theory”, in S. Romaniuk, M. Thapa, and P. Marton (eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies, Basingstoke: Palgrave [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74336-3_372-1]

“Peacebuilding”, in S. Romaniuk, M. Thapa, and P. Marton (eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies, Basingstoke: Palgrave [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74336-3_99-1]

“The Workers’ Party of Turkey and Cyprus”, History and Culture of Modern Turkey, an online festschrift for Erik-Jan Zürcher [https://rise.articulate.com/share/IcaKgLk6px45D8OBUiHcFARF23K734-E#/?_k=4dfdu8]

2018

“Kemalism, Erdoğanism and the Restructuring of Turkey”, The Turkish Studies Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 122-141.

“The AKP’s ‘Yeni Türkiye’: Challenging the Kemalist Narrative?”, Mediterranean Quarterly: A Journal of Global Issues, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 11-32.

“Politics and Nationalism in Cyprus”, Oxford Bibliographies, [DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199743292-0240]

(with T. Kyritsi), “Introduction: Cypriot Nationalism(s) in Context”, in T. Kyritsi and N. Christofis (eds.), Cypriot Nationalisms in Context: History, Politics, and Identity, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2018, pp. 1-22.

“Encountering Imperialism and Colonialism: The Greek and Turkish Left in Cyprus”, in T. Kyritsi and N. Christofis (eds.), Cypriot Nationalisms in Context: History, Politics, and Identity, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 283-305.

(with A. Logotheti) “Turkey in Syriza’s Foreign Policy, 2015-2017”, in Z. M. Uzuner (ed.), The Role of the Image in the Greek-Turkish Relations, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp. 103-120.

2017

“The Ottoman Empire in the Aftermath of the October Revolution: Realism or Ideological Identification?”, TA ΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΑ, vol. 66, pp. 145-164 (in Greek).

’New’ vs. ‘Old’ Turkey: Continuities and Ruptures, Contemporary Issues, vol. 137, pp. 8-10 (in Greek)

“Turkey, Cyprus and the Arab Uprisings”, in H. Işıksal and O. Göksel (eds.), Turkey’s Relations with the Middle East: Political Encounters after the Arab Spring, New York: Springer, pp. 133-147.

“Collective and Counter Memory: The ‘Invention of Resistance’ in the Rhetoric of the Greek and Turkish Left, 1951-1971”, in L. Karakatsanis and N. Papadogiannis (eds.), The Politics of Culture in Turkey, Greece & Cyprus: Performing the Left Since the 1960s, London and New York: Routledge, 2017, pp. 208-227.

“Introduction”, in N. Christofis (ed.), War and Resistance in Thessaly: Aspects of its History during the 1940s, Athens: Topos, 2017, pp. 1-13 (in Greek).

2016

“La cuestión de Chipre durante la administración del AKP. ¿Viejos asuntos, nuevas aproximaciones?”, in F. Donelli, M. Férez and A. Chiriatti (eds.), Un Retrato de la Turquia Contemporanea. Vision General y Perspecticas, Mexico City: Anahuac University, 2016, pp. 157-168 (in Spanish).

2015

“The Usable Past: Cyprus in the Greek and Turkish Left Discourse”, in Social, Economic and Political History of Cyprus, Nicosia: Promitheas, 2015, pp. 171-195 (in Greek)

“Turkey and the Cold War”, in F. Jacob (ed.), Peripheries of the Cold War/Peripherien des Kalten Krieges, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, pp. 257-281.

“Anti-Imperialism in Greece and Turkey regarding Cyprus (1950s and 1960s)”, in I. Ness and Z. Cope (eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, 2nd edition, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 [2nd edition 2020], pp. 280-286.

“Turkey and the West during the Cold War, 1949-1989: Framing a Period”, in N. Moudouros and M. N. Michael (eds.), Τhe New Turkish Hegemony: Dimensions of Political Islam, Athens: Papazisis, 2014, pp. 75–115 (in Greek).

2013

“Gezi Park: The Powerfully Symbolic Chance to Act Together!, Journal of Global Faultlines, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 47-49

(with C. Kollias, S. Papadamou, A. Stagiannis), The Istanbul Stock Market’s Reaction to Terrorist Attacks, Doğuş Üniversitesi Dergisi, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 153-164

“The Foreign Policy of the Turkish Left Between Anti-imperialism and Nationalism: Cyprus as a Case Study”, in Y. Özdemir (ed.), Üçüncü Uluslararası Kıbrıs Sempozyumu, Ankara, 2013, pp. 217–225.

(with C. Kollias, S. Papadatos, and A. Stagiannis), “Terrorism and Capital Markets: The Effects of the Istanbul Bombings”, in K. Bratanis, D. Dranidis, P. Koktsidis, L. Lazouras, E. Nikolaidou (eds.), Infusing Research and Knowledge in South-East Europe, Thessaloniki: South-East European Research Center, 2012, pp. 189–201

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