The Greek-American Cultural Experiences pages profiles those who endeavor to share their Greek-American cultural experiences with the world. Although their opinions and views are solely their own and do not reflect the opinions and views of YaSas.com, we share a love for the culture of Greece. Go here if you have a Greek-American cultural experience to share and wish to be considered for a profile. Foti Jean-Pierre Fotiu - Writer
Readers will enjoy the writer’s experiences as he describes the days and times of his youth, and the social and religious life, both in the Greek community and in the wider area. His narrative includes an overview of the political manipulations that lead to deteriorating relations between the authorities and the city’s Greek inhabitants, as well as first-hand accounts of the time of terror on September 5th and 6th, 1955, and its aftermath, suffered by the city’s ethnic Greeks, Armenians, and Jews. Fotiu astutely analyzes the national and international reactions to the catastrophe and the circumstances that compelled his family, and thousands of other ethnic minorities, to leave Istanbul.
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The Greek-American Directory
The author’s own family first gets away to Belgium, then finds a permanent haven in the United States. Final chapters of the book deal with both his own outlook and the global state of affairs Fotiu finds when he re-visits the land of his birth and updates the city’s and region’s chronicles to the present. Especially poignant is the portrayal of the remnant of once prosperous ethnic communities, as well as the diminished circumstances of the Greek (Eastern) Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate.