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Dimitri Kitsikis ((ギリシア語:Δημήτρης Κιτσίκης); born 2 June 1935) is a Greek Turkologist, Professor of International Relations and Geopolitics. He has also published poetry in French and Greek. ==Life== Dimitri Kitsikis is a Turkologist and Professor of International Relations and Geopolitics at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada since 1970, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; he received his doctoral degree in 1963 from the Sorbonne, Paris, under the supervision of Pierre Renouvin. He has been named one of the "three top geopolitical thinkers worldwide, Karl Haushofer, Halford Mackinder and Dimitri Kitsikis".〔Ch. Raptis, ''Η γεωγραφία ως σύγχρονο εργαλείο πολιτικής επιβολής (as a Present Day Instrument of Political Decision Making'' ), Athens, Trito Mati, no. 223, September 2014, p.25.〕 While pursuing his doctoral studies in Paris, he works from 1960 to 1962 as a research assistant at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He derives his origin from a notable Greek-Orthodox family of intellectuals and acclaimed professionals of 19th-century Greece.〔Emmanuel G. Chalkiadakes, ''Τὸ Τεχνικὸ Ἐπιμελητήριο τῆς Ἑλλάδας στὸ Μεσοπόλεμο. Σύσταση, λειτουργία, ἐξέλιξη. Ὁ ρόλος τοῦ Νίκου Κιτσίκη,'' Athens, ΤΕΕ, 2003.〕〔Euaggelos Ath. Kouloumpis, ''ΤΕΕ. Ἐνημερωτικό Δελτίο. Νίκος Κιτσίκης. Χιλιοστὸ ἀφιέρωμα'', Athens, 1978.〕〔Elle Pappa, ''Νίκος Κιτσίκης. Ὁ ἐπιστήμονας, ὁ ἄνθρωπος, ὁ πολιτικός'', Athens, ΤΕΕ, 1986.〕〔ΤΕΕ/ΤΑΚ, ''Τὸ κτίριο Γερωνυμάκη-Στεργιάδη'', Ἡράκλειο, 2008.〕 He holds both French and Canadian citizenships .〔Papyrus-Larousse, Athens, vol. 8ος, 1966. -''Ὑδρία, Μεγάλη Γενική Ἐγκυκλοπαίδεια'', Athens, vol. 33, 1984, -Δ.Σιατόπουλος, ''Γραμματολογικὴ καὶ Βιογραφικὴ Ἐγκυκλοπαίδεια τῆς Ἑλληνικής Λογοτεχνίας'', Athens, 1981. -''Greek Who's Who 1965'', Athens. -''Who's Who 1979. Βιογραφικὸ Λεξικὸ προσωπικοτήτων'', Athens, 1979. -''Who's Who. Ἐπίτομο Βιογραφικὸ Λεξικό'', Athens, Metron, from 1992 - ''Hübners Who is Who'', Verlag, Greece,from 2007. -''Who's Who in the Balkans'', Athens, Metron. - ''The International Who's Who'', London, Europa Publications, from 1995 -''Canadian Who's Who'', Toronto, University of Toronto Press, from 1993 - ''Directory of American Scholars'', USA. ''Dictionary of International Biography'', Cambridge, UK. ''Men of Achievement'', Cambridge, UK, from 1979. -''Who's Who in the Commonwealth'', Cambridge, UK. -''International Who's Who of Intellectuals'', Cambridge, UK. -''The Directory of Distinguished Americans'', USA, ''Personalities of America'', USA, ''Biography International'', USA. -''World Who's Who'', 2008, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.〕 His father, Nicolas Kitsikis (1887–1978), rector of the Polytechnic School in Athens, the most famous civil engineer of Greece, was a senator and an MP. His uncle, Konstantinos Kitsikis (1893–1969), a celebrated architect, Nicolas' younger brother, was also a professor at the Athens Polytechnic School. His grandfather, a chief justice, Dimitri Kitsikis senior (1850–1898), had settled in Athens, in 1865, from Lesbos, his native island and was married to Cassandra (Κασσάνδρα), the sister of a member of the Greek Parliament, Dimitri Hatsopoulos (Δημήτρης Χατσόπουλος), 1844–1913, born in Karpenisi.〔Γεώργιος Ἀλ. Φαρμακίδης, Δημήτριος Χατσόπουλος, 1844-1913 - Ατhènes, 1965.〕 His mother, Beata Kitsikis née Petychakis (Μπεάτα Πετυχάκη), was born in Herakleion, Crete, from a wealthy Cretan family and Greek Italian nobles from Trieste of mixed Roman Catholic and Orthodox origin. Her father, Emmanuel Petychakis founded a beverage production plant in Cairo, Egypt and her stepfather Aristidis Stergiadis was the High Commissioner of Greece in Smyrna (Izmir) from 1919 to 1922. During the Greek civil war, at the age of 12, he was sent to a boarding school in Paris, by Octave Merlier,〔Les réfugiés grecs d'Anatolie et le Centre d'Etudes micrasiatiques d'Athènes, ''Turcica'', vol. 17, 1985, p. 227.〕 the head of the French Institute in Athens, because his mother had been condemned to death as a communist fighter.〔Ν. Μπατιστάτος, "Ἀπέδειξαν πὼς ἡ Ἑλλάδα δὲν εἶναι ψωροκώσταινα", ''Ριζοσπάστης'', January 12, 2003.〕 He stayed in France for 23 years with his British wife Anne Hubbard, the daughter of a chief justice, whom he had married in Scotland in 1955,〔"Runaway Anne Has a Double Wedding", ''Scottish Daily Express'', 31 August 1955.〕 with his two first children, Tatiana and Nicolas. He was expelled from the French University for his active participation as a Maoist in the French student revolt of May 1968.〔D. Kitsikis, ''Συγκριτικὴ Ἱστορία Ἑλλάδος-Κίνας'', Athens, Herodotos, 2007〕 Since 1958, Dimitri Kitsikis had traveled to the P.R. of China where he became a committed Maoist.〔''Τότε'', issue 39, Winter 1992, Ares Moraites, "Τί μᾶς ἑνώνει καὶ τί μᾶς χωρίζει μὲ τὸν Δ. Κιτσίκη" and interview with Moraites and Alexandrou.〕 He was then promoted to associate and later to full professor, after being invited to Canada in 1970 by the University of Ottawa. Since then, he has been living and working in Ottawa as well as in Athens,〔Greek Who's Who 1965, Athens.〕 with his second wife, Ada (Αδαμαντία) Nikolarou, whom he married in 1975, the daughter of a farmer from the historic Byzantine town of Mystras, near Sparta and from whom he has two more children, Agis Ioannis Kitsikis and Kranay Kitsikis-De Leonardis. Himself is an admirer of the Byzantine Empire. Kitsikis is thus a Panhellen, a cosmopolitan Greek, holding Greek citizenship, in addition to French and Canadian ones. Since he was a child he had an idée fixe: He wanted not only to reconcile Greeks and Turks, but also to unite them into a Greek Turkish Confederation which would (to an extent) be a reincarnation of the Byzantine/Ottoman Empires; thus filling the political, cultural and economic vacuum that's left behind by their absence in the East Mediterranean region.〔Ἐποπτεία, year 7, June 1982, tribute by P. Dracopoulos and ''Νέα Κοινωνιολογία'', 9th issue, Summer 1990, " Ἑλλάς-Τουρκία", a special tribute; article by Neocles Sarres.〕 A devout Orthodox Christian, he came to sympathise with the Turkish religion of Bektashism-Alevism〔D. Kitsikis, ''Ἡ σημασία τοῦ μπεκτασισμοῦ-ἀλεβισμοῦ γιὰ τὸν ἑλληνισμό'', Athens, Hecate, 2006.〕 and sought to ally it with Orthodoxy, in order to form a basis for a future political union between Athens and Ankara. Believing in the collaboration of religious communities, as in the millet system of the Ottoman Empire, he worked closely with Shia Muslims in Iran,〔"Μεταξὺ δύο πυρῶν ἡ Ἑλλάδα", interview with D. Kitsikis by A. Balle, ''Τρίτο Μάτι'', τ. 16–17, Summer 1992.〕 Jews in Israel〔Amy Singer, ''Aspects of Ottoman History'', Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, 1994.〕 and Hindu vaishnavs in India.〔T.D. Singh & Ravi Gomatam, ''Synthesis of Science and Religion'', The Bhaktivedanta Institute, Bombay, 1988.〕 His elder son Nicolas has been a Vaishnav since 1984 and lives with his Hindu wife in the Vaishnav community of Gainesville, Florida. Although a member of the official Church of Greece, he always sympathised with the Old-Calendarist movement, the adherents of which reject the Church's use of the Gregorian (New) calendar and maintain a traditionalist attitude towards Christian life and worship. As Orthodoxy prevailed over the heresy of Iconoclasm in the 9th century and restored the use of the icon in Christian worship, he stands convinced that the Old Calendar will once again be adopted by those Orthodox Churches which rejected it in the earlier part of the 20th century.〔D. Kitsikis, ''The Old Calendarists and the Rise of Religious Conservatism in Greece'', Etna, California, Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, 1995.〕 Since the 1970s he has taught Chinese and Turkish history, political ideologies and geopolitics at a number of universities in the West.〔University of Ottawa, Faculty of Arts, Department of History website, teaching staff.〕 His plethora of books have been translated in many languages, while articles concerning his work have been published in Chinese, the Balkan languages, German, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.〔See the list of works below〕 He also taught at the Universities of Boğaziçi in Istanbul, Bilkent in Ankara and Gediz in Izmir where he became one of the closest friends and advisers of the President of the Turkish Republic, Turgut Özal.〔Jean-Marie Joly, «Pas un tapis volant, mais presque», ''Gazette'', Université d'Ottawa, vol.II(7), 23 novembre 1990.〕 In Greece, he was resident researcher at the National Institute of Social Studies and taught at Deree College, the American College in Athens.〔See the above ''Who's Who'', reference 5.〕 He is a public figure in Greece and had been a close friend and advisor of Greek Premier Konstantinos Karamanlis senior in the 1960s and 1970s.〔In an interview by the Istanbul journal, ''Yeni Aktüel'' (September 25th, 2007) when professor Anthony Liakos was asked by the Turkish journalist from where Karamanlis took his ideas regarding a Greek-Turkish collaboration, he responded, “from Kitsikis.”〕 He contributes regularly with political articles to Greek magazines and, since 1996, publishes in Athens a Greek quarterly journal of Geopolitics named after his civilisation model, «Endiamese Perioche, Ἐνδιάμεση Περιοχή» or “Intermediate Region”.〔See the corresponding web page of ''Intermediate Region''.〕 Named after his father, who died in 1978, the “Nikos Kitsikis Library and Archives” resides in the home of family member, the former high commissioner of Smyrna (during the Greek occupation of the city between 1919 and 1922) Aristidis Stergiadis (1861–1949), in Herakleion, Crete. Dimitri Kitsikis was honoured by the Greek State in 2006. The latter established and financed the “Dimitri Kitsikis Public Foundation and Library” in Athens.〔See the corresponding web page〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dimitri Kitsikis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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