Memory as Triumph and Trauma: Reviewing the Greek Historiography of the Asia Minor Catastrophe alongside Mustafa Kemal's Nutuk

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-09-17
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Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
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Memory as Triumph and Trauma: Reviewing the Greek Historiography of the Asia Minor Catastrophe alongside Mustafa Kemal's Nutuk

George Vlachos
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
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Memory as Triumph and Trauma: Reviewing the Greek Historiography of the Asia Minor Catastrophe alongside Mustafa Kemal's Nutuk

George Vlachos
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Abstract

his review essay offers a comparative analysis of Greek and Turkish historiographical approaches to the Asia Minor Catastrophe of 1922 through Thanos Veremis's A Brief History of the Asia Minor Catastrophe (2023) and the Greek translation of Mustafa Kemal's Nutuk (1927; Greek edition 2022). Drawing on Benedict Anderson's concept of the imagined community, Anthony D. Smith's work on ethnic origins and national identity, and Michael Rothberg's concept of multidirectional memory, the essay examines how the same historical conflict has been incorporated into contrasting national memory frameworks. The analysis argues that Greek historiography has increasingly incorporated 1922 as a founding trauma, accompanied by processes of self-critique and reflection, while the Nutuk constructs the Turkish national narrative around victory, national rebirth, and the foundation of the Kemalist state. The essay compares the two narratives through three thematic axes: the construction of the Other, the attribution of responsibility, and the functions of trauma and triumph in collective memory. At the same time, the study emphasizes that neither national narrative is monolithic. Revisionist, local, subaltern, and transnational memory practices challenge established frameworks in both Greece and Turkey. Drawing on the scholarship surrounding the centennial of the Treaty of Lausanne, the essay proposes "mnemonic relationality" as a way of understanding how Greek and Turkish memories of 1922 are mutually constituted and interact with other memories, including those associated with the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust. The essay concludes that moving beyond a simple trauma-versus-triumph binary can contribute to a more entangled understanding of the contested legacies of 1922.

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