Common Cultural HeritageCOMMON CULTURAL HERITAGE : Developing local Awareness Concerning the Architectural Heritage Left from the Exchange of Populations in Turkey and Greece

Yayıncı / Publisher:  Lozan Mübadilleri Vakfı (LMV) /The Foundation of Lausanne Treaty Emigrants

Editor
: Sefer GÜVENÇ

Katkıda Bulananlar / Contributions: Maria Psarrou, Ege Yıldırım, B.Nilgün Öz, Barış Çakır

Çeviriler / Translations: (Türkish-English) Emine Yıldırım, (Greek-English) Katerina Kitidis

Çeviri Editörü /Translation Editor: Ayşecan Akarlı Pekin

Grafik  Tasarım /Graphic Design: Yiğit Adam

Photographs: Aslı Özbay, Nimet Özgönül, Süleyman Mazlum, Birol Malkoç, B.Nilgün Öz, Ege Yıldırım, İskender Özsoy, Talat Ulusoy

Ebat:                         19.5 x 27 cm

Sayfa sayısı:            288

İç kağıt:                     1. Hamur 90 gr.

Baskı:                        kapak 280 gr. Amerikan Bristol 4+4 renk, iç baskı 1+1renk

Dil:                             İngilizce

Matbaa: Mısırlı-Atra Matbaacılık Aş

Baskı tarihi: Şubat 2005, İstanbul

ISBN: 97597405-1-3

İngilizce olarak yayımlanan “Common Cultural Heritage” kitabı, “Türkiye ve Yunanistan’da Mübadeleden Kalan Mimari Mirasın Korunması için Yerel Bilincin Geliştirilmesi Projesi” kapsamında Nevşehir-Mustafapaşa (Sinasos) ve Girit-Rethymno (Resmo)’da düzenlenen panellerde her iki ülkenin akademisyen ve uzmanlarının konuya ilişkin sundukları bildirileri içermektedir.

Türk-Yunan Sivil Diyalogu kapsamında Avrupa Komisyonu tarafından desteklenen “Ortak Kültür Mirasımız” projesi Türkiye’den Lozan Mübadilleri Vakfı, Mustafapaşa Belediyesi, TMMOB Mimarlar Odası ve Koruma Restorasyon Uzmanları Derneği (KORDER) ile Yunanistan’dan İCOMOS-Yunanistan Milli Komitesi ortaklığı ile hayata gerçekleştirilmiştir.

18-24 Eylül 2004 tarihlerinde Nevşehir-Mustafapaşa (Sinasos)’da, 21-27 Ekim 2004 tarihlerinde Girit-Rethymno (Resmo)’da birer hafta süren etkinlikler (paneller, workshoplar, sergiler) kapsamında Kapadokya Tarihi ve Coğrafyası, Kapadokya’da Kültürel Mirasın Korunması, Tarihi Resmo ve Osmanlı Eserleri, Kapadokya-Sinasos’da Rum Mimari Mirası, Girit’te Osmanlı Mimari Mirası, Kültürler arası Tarih ve Bellek, Müzik ve Şiirde Etkileşimler” başlığı altında Yunanistan ve Türkiye’deki ORTAK KÜLTÜR MİRASIMIZIN durumu tartışılmış ve korunması için alınması gereken önlemler ve gösterilmesi gereken çabalar üzerinde durulmuştur. Etkinlikler sonucunda oybirliği ile kabul edilen SONUÇ BİLDİRGESİ resmi kanallardan Türkiye ve Yunanistan’ın yetkili makamlarına iletilmiştir

Lozan Mübadilleri Vakfının iki ülkenin sivil toplum örgütleri ile birlikte yürüttüğü “ORTAK KÜLTÜR MİRASIMIZ- 1923 NÜFUS MÜBADELESİNDEN KALAN MİMARI MİRASIN KORUNMASI İLE İLGİLİ YEREL BİLİNCİN GELİŞTİRİLMESİ” adlı proje, üstün kalitesi ve Avrupa’nın kültür mirasını koruma açısından sağladığı eşsiz katkılarından dolayı Avrupa Birliği Kültürel Miras/Europa Nostra DİPLOMA ödülüne layık görüldü.

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

Within the framework of the Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue Programme, launched by
the European Commission, a project has been undertaken with the aim of increasing
local awareness concerning the architectural heritage left from the exchange of
populations of 1923 in Turkey and Greece. Initiated by the Foundation of Laussane
Treaty Emigrants, the project had among its partners, the Association of Conservation
and Restoration Experts (KORDER), the Chamber of Architects and the Municipality
of Mustafapasa in Turkey, and the Hellenic Section of the International Council on
Monuments and Sites (lCOMOS) in Greece. The project, titled ‘Developing Local
Awareness Concerning the Architectural Heritage Left from the Exchange ofPopulations
in Turkey and Greece’, or ‘Common Cultural Heritage’ in short form, aimed to create
an opportunity for members of related non-governmental organizations, municipalities
and the local populations of both countries to appraise the cultural heritage left from
the emigrants and discuss the criteria for its protection.

The main activities of the project consisted of conferences, workshops and exhibitions
held in the towns of Sinasos / Mustafapasa (Nevsehir-Cappadocia, Turkey) on 18-24
September 2004 and in Rethymno (Crete, Greece) on 21-27 October 2004, lasting a
week in each location. In the workshops, groups led by five experts from each side
discussed issues such as conservation and restoration methodology and the reuse of
buildings, in the physical context of the architectural heritage, enabling a mutual
exchange of technical know-how. In the exhibitions plans, architectural drawings and
old photographs of the settlements and buildings were displayed, as well as scientific
and oral history documents and ethnographic material belonging to the emigrants. To
ensure the sustainability of the project, the workshop and conference results and the
exhibition material was placed on the internet and compiled in databases and publications.
Also the whole process, in both countries, was filmed by a crew from TRT (Turkish
Radio and Television Corporation) and turned into a 30 minute documentary film
named ‘The Heritage Left from the Population Exchange’ and was aired on TRT-2.

It is expected that this civil society project between Turkey and Greece will become
a model to be adopted in other regions in both countries. The project will help provide
an increase in dialogue, improve mutual understanding and eliminate political prejudices
in relation to the conservation of the cultural heritage.

 

 İÇİNDEKİLER /  CONTENTS

 

Opening Session

Sefer Guvenc

Geoeral Secretary of the Foundation of Lausanne Treaty Emigrants (LMV)

Nikos Agriantonis

President of the Hellenic Section of ICOMOS

Ali Ulusoy

President of the Chamber of Architects – Ankara Branch

Mustafa Ozer

Mayor of Mustafapasa

Alaattin Turhan

Prefect of Nevsehir

 

An Overview: History and Geography of Cappadocia         

Common Cultural Heritage

Prof. Dr. Filiz Cahslar Yenisehirlioglu

Dean of Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture Baskent University

 

Christian Art of Capadoccia from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century
Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Sacit Pekak

Department of Art History, Faculty of Literature, Hacettepe University

 

The Exchange of Populations: The Case of Sinasos
Prof. Dr. Evangelia Balta

National Hellenic Foundation for Scientific Research

 

Conservation of the Cultural Heritage of Cappadocia (part I) 

 

Conservation Principles and Laws of National and Regional Measures

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ernre Madran

Scientific Consultant to the Project

 

Tourism and Management of Traditional Structures

on a National and Regional Scale

Dr. Nimet Özgönül

Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, METU

 

Actions of the ‘Nevsehir Regional Council for the Protection of
Cultural and Natural Assets’ in Cappadocia

Mevlüt Coşkun

Nevsehir Regional Council of Protection of Cultural and Natural Assets

 

Conservation of the Cultural Heritage of Cappadocia (Part II)

 

The Settlement We Have Rediscovered via its Conservation Plan
(Cappadocia’s “Sleeping Beauty” Mustafapasa)

 

Baran idil

High Eng. Architect, Planner

 

Ash Ozbay

Architect, Restoration Expert

 

Sinasos- Its People and Houses
Stylianos Rohides

 

Proposal for the Common Scientific Study of
the Cultural Past of the Two Peoples

Prof. Dr. Nicolas C. Moutsopoulos

Architect, Founding member of the Hellenic Section of ICOMOS

 

Announcement of the Final Report to the Participants
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emre Madran

Scientific Consultant to the Project

 

Rethymno (Resmo) Crete, Greece Panels Workshops Exhibition

 

Opening Session

 

Nikos Agriantonis

President of the Hellenic Section of ICOMOS

 

Mi.ifide Pekin

Vice President of the Foundation of Lausanne Treaty Emigrants

 

Vassilis Xydias

Greek Project Coordinator, Management Engineer, Culture and Development Consultant

 

The Turkish Greek Civic Dialogue Programme
Ira Kaliampetsos

Civil Society and Democratization Delegation to the European Commission to Turkey

 

Fr. Kaminakis

The representative of the Metropolitan of Rethymno and Avlopotamos

 

Mr. Haris Papadakis

Representative of the Prefecrure of Rethymno

Mr. Dimitris Archontakis
Mayor of Rethymno

 

Paraskevas Syrianoglou

President of the Foundation of the Asia Minor population in Rethymno district

 

Can Binan

General Secretary of the Turkish Section of lCOMOS

 

Konstantinos Iliakis

President of the Association of House Owners and Residents in the Old City of Rethymno

 

Historic Rethymno and its Ottoman Monuments

 

The urban planning and social organization of Rethymno

during the Ottoman  rule.

Giannis Spandagos

Architect, researcher of the urban structure and the harbor of Rethymno

 

The Ottoman Monuments of Rethymno from the Viewpoint of a Collector
Giorgios P. Ekkekakis

Researcher, Bibliographer

 

The Architectural Typology of Ottoman Hamams:

Case Studies from Rethymno and Chania

Dr. Eleni Kanetaki

Architect-Engineer, N.T.U.A., Specialist in Restoration of Monuments, Universita di Roma La Sapienza

 

Roum Architectural Heritage in Cappadocia-Sinasos

 

Sinasos: The People and the Houses. Part II”

Stylianos Rohides                                .

Architect-Engineer, Researcher of the cultural past of Cappadocia and Istanbul

 

Studying the Houses of Sinasos from Crete
Prof. Dr. Christos Hatziosif

Historian, University of Crete

 

Protection and Development Plan of Mustafapasa / Sinasos
Mustafa Ozer

Mayor of Mustafapasa

 

The Greeks of Sinasos and their Current Relationship with their Place of Origin 175
Spyros Issopoulos

President of the Association “New Sinasos”

 

Preservation Works in Turkey: An Example, Andaval Constantin and Helena Church 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Sacit Pekak

Department of Art History, Faculty of Literature, Hacettepe University

 

 

 

Ottoman Architectural Heritage in Crete

 

The problems faced by the structural engineer during the reconstruction of monuments
Aristodimos Chatzidakis

Civil Engineer

 

The Contemporary Utilization of Ottoman Structures

Dr. Nimet Ozgonul

Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, METU

 

Recollections from the Composition Period of the Study on

the Restoration of the Historical Core of Rethymno

Prof. Dr. Nicolas C. Moutsopoulos

Aristotle University ofThessaloniki, founding member of the Hellenic Section of ICOMOS

 

 

Intercultural History and Memory

                                                                                        

Crete in the Ottoman Administration Before the Population Exchange            

Assoc. Prof. A. Niikhet Adiyeke

Department of History, Faculty of Science-Literature, Mersin University

 

Memories of Crete in Contemporary Ayvalık                          

Hasan Bülent Turkozen

The Mayor of Ayvalık

 

Creating a database on Ottoman Crete

Elias Kolovos

Researcher; (Ottoman history) Program of Turkish Studies Institute of Mediterranean Studies,
Foundation of Research & Technology, Hellas

 

Islamic Tombstones of Rethymno, Crete

Antonis Anastasopoulos

Lecturer (Turkish Studies) Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete

 

 

Exchanges in Music and Poetry

 

Pre-Minoan Influences in the Ecstatic Dance and Music of the A1evi of Anatolia
Nikiphoros Metaxas

Musician

 

Christians and Turks – the Language of Music and Everyday Life     

Theodoros I. Riginiotis

Professor of Theology and a collaborator of the web page: www.cretan-music.gr

 

 

Common Architectural and Cultural Heritage

 

Popular Architectural Tradition in the Balkans and the Present Problems
Dimitrios Psarros

Architect, Greek Scientific Coordinator of the Project

 

  Is Turkish-Hellen Common Culture a part of European Identity?

Prof. Dr. Haluk SEZGIN

Faculty of Arcitechture, istanbul Maltepe University

 

 

  

Final Declaration                                                                         

 

Approval                                                                                        

 

Evaluation                                                                                       

 

An Evaluation of the Common Cultural Heritage Project Workshops

 

Impressions

 

 

You Called and I Came, Crete
Prof. Dr. Ayse Lahur Kirtunç

Department of American Culture and Literature, Faculty of Letters, Ege University

 

 

The Human Touch
Gerrard Shaw

Conservation professional working for local government in Manchester, England

 

 

The Project on The Press

 

The Rethymno Exhibition and Activities of the Project

 

 

Urban Buildings in the Historic Center of Iraklion
Andreadakis Vangelis

Architect, Specialist in tlie Study of Public Works

Activities at Cappadocia

Activities at Crete