Vemund Aarbakke (University of Bergen)

Submitted: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 13:30:02 +0100
 
Vemund Aarbakke
Research Associate
Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic studies,
University of Bergen
Parkveien22 a
5007 Bergen
Norway


Phones: 47 55917203
        47  55213275
FAX:    47 55313845
        47 55901445
Email:  Vemund.Aarbakke@smi.uib.no(Vemund Aarbakke)
 

I have a degree in Balkan studies from the University of Copenhagen where I
studied 19th and 20th century Balkan history as well as Greek, Turkish,
Bulgarian and, Macedonia languages. My Master thesis from 1992 titled
"Ethnic Rivalry and the Quest for Macedonia 1870-1913" dealt with Balkan
nationalist movement in the late Ottoman Empire. I am currently working on
a doctoral thesis at the the University of Bergen supported by the
Norwegian Research Council, which hopefully will be finished by the end of
1996. My subject is Greek-Turkish relations and the minority issue with
main emphasis on the situation of the "Muslim Minority" of Western Thrace -
Greece during the last 10-20 years.