Macedonia-Turkey Reflections: Between Geopolitical History...

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Prof. Dr. Georgi M. Dimirovski (1 & 2)

Active Member of the European Academy of Sciences & Arts, Salzburg, F.R. Austria Foreign Member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences, Belgrade, Rep. of Serbia

Research Professor of Automation & Systems Engineering(1)- SS Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Rep. of Macedonia

AndProfessor of Control and Information Sciences

(2)- Dogus University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Rep. of. Turkey

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Macedonia-Turkey Reflections: Between Geopolitical History, Great

Ataturk, and Ordinary People

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1. PROLOGUE

2. CONTEMPORARY REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA IN THE EYES OFTURKISH JOURNALISTS

3. HONOURING THE GREAT ATATURK IN MACEDONIA: MACEDONIA AND TURKEY

4. ONE MORE LOOK BACK TO HISTORICAL TIMES

5. A FEW STORIES ABOUT ORDINARY MACEDONIANS AND TURKS


Dedicated to the Friendship of the People of Twin Cities Radovish, Macedonia, and Seldjuk, Turkey

OUTLINE OF THE PRESENTATION

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1. PROLOGUE: Lord Patrick Kinross’s Book“Peace at home - peace abroad”

The great Gazi Mustafa “I am Macedonian. But Kemal Pasha - Ataturk I make no territorial claims.”


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Istanbul at the beginning Skopje (Uskub) at the beginning of the 20th century, before the the 20th century before the First First Balkan War Balkan War

1. PROLOGUE: On the Sunset of Ottoman Empire


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1. PROLOGUE: A French Author on Nations of Europe WELMO-2017_World Electrical Mobility Conference_ Izmir, TR

The nations of Europe as seen by a contemporary French Author not so long time ago, just a couple of decades only

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On the map of Europe On the map of Balkans

A map as seen by Western (above) and by Turkish (below) journalists


1. PROLOGUE: About Europe, Macedonia and Turkey

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1. PROLOGUE: Ordinary People in Macedonia and Turkey

Grandfather Kerim Grandfather Kuzman

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Centuries old and most valuableheritage treasures of both culturesprovide for common grounds andco-existence: “Peace at home,peace abroad.”


2. CONTEMPORARY REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA IN THEEYES OF TURKISH JOURNALISTS

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Skopje’s Stonebridge of Murad I From “Kale of Skopje” Back-(XIV century) nowadays only -view on Mustafa-Pasha Mosque,pedestrian and in the city center opposite to the Stonebridge


2. CONTEMPORARY REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA IN THEEYES OF TURKISH JOURNALISTS

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A part of downtown Ohrid – A part of downtown Kutahya –Macedonia Turkey

Which downtown looks more Turkish, and vice-versa whichdowntown looks more Macedonian ?!


2. CONTEMPORARY REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA INTHE EYES OF TURKISH JOURNALISTS

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Centuries old but intact Church of St. Klement in Ohird (Left) andthe newly built one also in Byzantine style Church of St. Klement inPlaoshnik (right) just beneath of the Tzar Samuel’s Fortress City onthe Ohridean Hill, the capital of short lived Second MacedonianEmpire at permanent war with Byzantium Empire (X-XI century)

2. CONTEMPORARY REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA INTHE EYES OF TURKISH JOURNALISTS

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Museum - restored houses of Ataturk’s father and grandfather, the ancestor ofwhom were Yuruks from Konya and Aydin who had settled down in the village“Kodjadjik”, contemporary Municipality “Centar Zhupa” , in the XV cntury.


3. HONOURING GREAT ATATURK IN MACEDONIA: MACEDONIA AND TURKEY

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Memorial Room of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the great commanderand visionary statesman, who is rightly called “Father of Turks”.



Gazi Mustafa Kemal Pasha (left);Exponents in Museum of Bitola.

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Historical Military College in Bitola (Manstir) that was attendedby Mustafa Kemal and where he demonstrated not onlyoutstanding military skills but also outstanding results in Physicsand Mathematics as well as knowledge of History and Languages.



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Before First Balkan WarMajor Mustafa Kemal

(left)Lieutenant SaltirKoshevaliski (right)

A famous Ottoman Macedonian Turk, and a not famous OttomanMacedonian who served well and had fallen in famous Battle ofEdirne defending the Ottoman Empire



Family Koshevaliski in Shtip (Ishtip) a photo in spring 1911, at that time my wife’s father has not been born as yet; he was born after Balkan Wars and given the name Saltir in memory of his late brother Lt. Saltir Bey who had fallen at the Battle of Edirne.

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18Mustafa Kemal Ataturk – Statesman and Reformer, Father ofTurks, and a father as every ordinary man.



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My pleasant encounter with a Muslim Macedonian (“Torbesh”) in Bornova -Izmir: Mr Presidents of “Makedonya Gochmenleri”; also in Karshiyaka – Izmir

with young Colleagues from Dokuz Eylul University, all graduate students of my most dear friend Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erol Uyar



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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erol UYAR, the first from the right, and me with mycountrymen “Makedonya Gochmenler” in their premises inBornova, in April 2008

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erol UYAR and me together with my countrymen “MakedonyaGochmenler” in their club-café in Bornova, in April 2008.


22Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erol Uyar, me and our graduate students at the premises of theGraduate Institute of Dokuz Eylul University.



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Two soldiers of the same Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA-Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija): the first one during rather difficultyears of late 1940s and early 1950s, the second one during the late1960s. Honourable Ladies and Gentlemen, among them who maybe a Macedonian and who is a Turk, please?




Ohridean Lake Region - UNESCO World Heritage of Culture and Natural Environment in my little home country Republic of Macedonia

City of Ohrid – The city that has been referred to as Jerusalem of the Balkans during the ages of Ottoman Empire; a part of Ohridean Lake is also seen.

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The fortress on top of the hill is the remaining of the fortresscapital city of the short-lived Second Macedonian Empire (969-1018) founded by Tzar Samuel (976-1014), whose crown wasblessed by Pope Gregory V, and who was at permanent warwith Byzantium Empire (which claimed all of the AncientMacedonian Empire as before the Roman Empire did too).

More impressive to notice are the following facts of ourcultural history. St. Clement Ohridski, Archbishop andfather-creator of Cyrilic Alphabet, on the grounds of

Hellenic alphabet, as well as of Old-Slavonic language, hadfounded in the 9th Century A.D. the Ohridean School of Letters andTheology in Plaoshnik Church, right beneath the fortress city. 25



This was a kind of high school at the time when in Europe no university or a school alike existed outside Roma in the Vatican. Under his guidance more than 3000 pupils have been educated in Cyrilic Alphabet and Old Slavonic, based on a Macedonian dialect around Sallonica, and then send to preach Jesus Christ’s teaching to all Slavic nations of that time. Contemporary Russian alphabet and language are the closest ones to that of St. Clemant’s. Contemporary Russian alphabet and language are the closest ones to that of St. Clemant’s.

On the opposite South-Eastern end of Ohridean Lake, there stands up to nowadays Monastery of St. Naum Ohridski, who

Lived and worked there, who was the first biologist and medic 26



to conduct both physician’s practice and research studies over thewhole of the Balkans. Thus the corner of Macedonia in the SouthWest, bordering Albania, indeed had been a cradle of culture andknowledge hence Byzantium Empire invaded it over and overagain in order to hold it within its frontiers until it finallycollapsed to Ottoman’s Conquest in the year 1371, within OttomanEmpire .

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28With all due respect of mine,


Ladies and Gentlemen,Thank you so much for your kind attention.Yashasan Turkiye – Yashasan Makedonya!

I Dedicate Cordially this Presentation to the Friendship of the People of Twin Cities

Radovish in Macedonia and Seldjuk in Turkey

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