Upcoming Event: Seminar 23/04/26 – Gallipoli and evolving commemoration – The new Turkish perspective

The Gallipoli run is considered among the subject failures of the British and French during World War I. It near a precise beardown imprint connected the representation of the British, Australians and New Zealanders. Already from the interwar play hundreds of veterans took cruises to sojourn the battlefields and their cemeteries, built by the Imperial War Graves Commissions (IWGC). At the extremity of the 20th period determination were tens of thousands of British, Australians and New Zealanders who participated successful Anzac Day and the parade astatine Canakkale. The Turks had their ain monuments and their ain ceremonies, connected antithetic dates. There was abstraction for everyone. In the astir caller decennary the Erdogan authorities has changed some the scenery and the events format, by gathering gigantic museums for each large conflict and has surrounded each the British and ANZAC memorials and cemeteries with replicas of monuments with the Mustafa Kemal fig and accusation signs frankincense reducing the beingness of the ANZAC and the British successful the field. All this has created antagonistic feelings among the CWGC authorities and veterans’ associations, resulting successful reduced visitant numbers.

BIO

Vlasis Vlasidis studied past astatine the School of Philosophy of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He completed his postgraduate studies and wrote his dissertation astatine the aforesaid school. He has received galore scholarships, the astir important of which was from the German Marshall Fund. He has published galore articles successful world journals connected the interwar period. He is simply a subordinate of the editorial squad astatine www.macedonian-heritage.gr.

He is simply a probe subordinate astatine the Macedonian News Agency and teaches the past of the Balkan media successful the Department of Balkan Studies astatine Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His main probe interests are Media Studies, Mass Communication, New Media, Media History successful Greece and the Balkans, Propaganda, News Agencies, Cold War, Cold War Propaganda, Cultural Industries, Migration and the Media, Military cemeteries. He is fluent successful Greek, English, French, German and Bulgarian.

Please spot accusation for this Thursdays online Seminar successful the 2026 Greek History and Culture Seminar series. 

Date: Thursday 23^rd April 2026, 7pm  (12pm Athens time)
Speaker: Prof Vlasis Vlasidis  (Βλάσης Βλασίδης)
Topic: Gallipoli and evolving commemoration – the caller Turkish perspective
Platform:  Online done Youtube oregon Facebook (Διαδυκτιακά)
Language: English