Beautiful and also interesting, because their dress is very close to traditional folk dress of the region, and I would have expected prosperous, Christian bourgeioses women in a large city like Trebizond at the time to be dressed in more Western clothes.
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I always hear the Twilight Zone theme in my head when Erdie or other Turkish politicians make statements like this:
“Erdoğan calls Demirtaş a ‘terrorist,’ denies existence of a Kurdish problem in Turkey“
Turkish Minute@TurkishMinuteTM https://turkishminute.com/2020/11/25/erdogan-calls-demirtas-a-terrorist-denies-existence-of-a-kurdish-problem-in-turkey/ Translate Tweet 3:56 PM · Nov 25, 2020·Twitter Web App
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Anastasios Antoniou@AnastasiosAA
Turkey just renamed John Kennedy Avenue in Varosha to Semih Sancar Avenue. Semih Sancar was Turkey’s chief of armed forces in 1974, when Turkey invaded Cyprus. Mr Erdogan’s vulgarity has no limits.
8:33 AM · Nov 24, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
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I like that they dress the women up in a way that recognizes Constantinopolitan Greeks’ deep, deep bourgeoisness and αστισμό — perhaps the most precious thing we lost through that community’s destruction. But Polites didn’t talk with that weird accent and that thick Turkish “λ”. They spoke perfect, accentless Modern Greek.
Anyway, I guess it’s significant and positive that they remain an archetype Greeks are still conscious of.
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There’s something Village People-ish about it, at best; Commodus, Roman-decadent at worst…
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The photos don’t say much, but they do capture the smart, urbane joy of Constantinopolitan life; and begs the question: did Greeks have a special sensory feel for the pleasures of Istanbul life, or did Greeks themselves generate that joy, now sorely missing from the contemporary city and its overgrown vulgarity?
Plus, dress and hairstyles look kind of early to middle 60s. Meaning that after the repeated blows of Varlık Vergisi in 1942-43, the Pogrom of September 6-7, 1955 and the Deportations of Istanbul Greeks in 1964-1965 (subject of incredibly moving scene in Tassos Boulmetis‘s film A Touch of Spice (Πολίτικη Κουζίνα/Politiki Kouzina/Istanbul Cuisine — see video at bottom), Greeks still knew how to have a good time in their beloved City.
And the scene from Politike Kouzina, with the family, deported and once settled in Athens, waits for the grandfather to come from Istanbul for a family wedding:
“I’ll tell you something and get it into your thick heads. Grandpa won’t come tomorrow and never intended to. Grandpa wouldn’t come to Greece even if Aemilios was marrying a film star. Grandpa hasn’t come all these years because he didn’t want to. He would never leave the City. None of us would, for anything in the world…
“Constantinople was called the City because it was the most beautiful city in the world.”
[My emphases]
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Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is scheduled to make an official visit to Turkish occupied northern Cyprus tomorrow. He has announced that he will “picnic” in the city of Famagusta/Amochostos/Αμμόχωστος, which has remained a unoccupied no man’s zone between Greeks and Turks since the 1974 invasion. Turkey has refrained from settling Turks from Anatolia in this part of Cyprus and it has — since the invasion — been seen as a sort of potential bargaining chip between the island’s two communities. Erdoğan’s visit is a clear symbolic statement that that will no longer be the case.
The protest is a sign of hope (though yes, the second video below contains a lot of Turkish gloating). It’s also an indication of the moderately nationalist and genuinely secular and modern identity of Turkish Cypriots. It was a real mistake on Greek Cypriots’ part to harass them as they did in the 50s and 60s, alienating and painting them into a corner.
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Jadde: from Bosnia to Bengal 