Our story will start having as a compass a book by Giannis Ksanthoulis (Γιάννης Ξανθούλης) ....whose beguiling fears drove him to find HIS ISTANBUL ....!
Everything happen because of a mosaic piece... a small golden piece... that travelled from Istanbul to Üsküp (Turkey) (Α) and from there to Alexandroupolis (Greece) (Β).. and all these because of the population transfer ....
and there.. somewhere between History and Autobiography, somewhere between Mehmed II and his grand mother Despina..here comes Ismail Kadare, and his stories about Istanbul, and few pages later... Istanbul-Constantinoupolis
Through the first pages of this Book, Xanthoulis is going back.. to the "Great and totally Christian Orthodox" era of the totally "holy Greek Christian Orthodox" Schools (late 40's) that they stood still opposite the totally "Devil Muslim Turks" and from there he runs in the 1955 and the Istanbul Pogrom...
and somewhere here starts my own story .. and the Xanthoulis' Istanbul becomes a great assistant to create my own City!
always yours
Menekse
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