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Aya Yorgi of Buyukada: A Shared Sacred Site in Modern Turkey

by Mustafa Diktas

The subject of shared shrines and pilgrimages in the context of modern Western academia seems to have been most highlighted by a British archaeologist living at the turn of the last century and carrying on research at the British School in Athens…

Mustafa Diktas

Mustafa Diktaş is a cultural anthropologist whose work explores the intersections of memory, displacement, and identity in the post-Ottoman world. His research focuses particularly on the cultural afterlives of population exchanges, border realignments, and the politics of heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean. Diktaş holds a PhD in Anthropology and is a frequent contributor to scholarly and public debates on nationalism, secularism, and the politics of ruins.

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