29 Glimpses at the Ghazi

Ken McMullen

29 Glimpses at the Ghazi

Made initially as a 90 minute documentary -drama for European Television on the end of the Ottoman Empire and the Sultanate and the historical arguments between secularism and fundamentalism.

This work was produced from over thirty hours of interviews with important political and cultural figures who were witnesses to the end of the Ottoman Empire and the formation of the modern Turkish State. Additionally the interviews included an audience with the Head of the Greek Orthodox Church, with a major Islamic Scholar and calligrapher, and with  a number of eminent Turkish, British and American Intellectuals, Academics  and a Psychoanalyst.

In its breadth and scope the work gives an historic panorama of some of the crucial events and belief structures that dominated a large part of the world during the first half of the Twentieth Century.

It is intended that '29 Glimpses at the Ghazi' will also be shown in Major International Art Galleries and Cultural Centres as a 30 hour,  continously running 'Installation' in conjunction with a companion piece which is in preparation which looks at  Ataturk's  great adversary and  Greek opposite, Vanecellos. It is anticipated that a correspondance will automatically be activated which may achieve some understanding behind not only the Twentieth Century's events between Greece and Turkey but also give an insight into the underlying causes of the Balkan Wars.