34 Facts About Dimitri Kitsikis

Dimitri Kitsikis was a Greek Philosopher, Turkologist and Sinologist, as well as a Professor of International Relations and Geopolitics.

Dimitri Kitsikis was a Turkologist and Sinologist Professor of International Relations and Geopolitics at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario, 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.

Dimitri Kitsikis has been named one of the "three top geopolitical thinkers worldwide, Karl Haushofer, Halford Mackinder and Dimitri Kitsikis".

Dimitri Kitsikis belonged to a notable Greek Orthodox family of intellectuals and acclaimed professionals of 19th-century Greece.

Dimitri Kitsikis held both French and Canadian citizenships, in addition to his Greek citizenship.

Dimitri Kitsikis's father, Nicolas Kitsikis, rector of the Polytechnic School in Athens, the most famous civil engineer of Greece, was a senator and an MP.

Dimitri Kitsikis's uncle, Konstantinos Kitsikis, a celebrated architect, Nicolas' younger brother, was a professor at the Athens Polytechnic School.

Dimitri Kitsikis's mother, Beata Kitsikis nee Petychakis, was born in Herakleion, Crete, from a wealthy Cretan family and Greek Italian nobles from Trieste of mixed Roman Catholic and Orthodox origin.

Dimitri Kitsikis 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, with his first two children, Tatiana and Nicolas.

Dimitri Kitsikis was expelled from the French University for his active participation as a Maoist in the French student revolt of May 1968.

Dimitri Kitsikis was then promoted to associate and later to full professor, after being invited to Canada in 1970 by the University of Ottawa.

Dimitri Kitsikis was thus a Panhellenist, a cosmopolitan Greek, holding Greek citizenship, in addition to French and Canadian ones.

Dimitri Kitsikis taught at Bogazici University in Istanbul, where he had as a student, the future prime minister of Turkey, Ahmet Davutoglu.

Dimitri Kitsikis is considered to have had a decisive influence, on Davutoglu's geopolitical theory.

Dimitri Kitsikis was a public figure in Greece and had been a close friend and advisor of Greek Premier Konstantinos Karamanlis senior in the 1960s and 1970s.

Dimitri Kitsikis was honoured by the Greek State in 2006.

Dimitri Kitsikis kept close ties with Prime Ministers Konstantinos Karamanlis senior of Greece and Turgut Ozal of Turkey as well as the Chinese leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.

Dimitri Kitsikis has been the initiator in France of the branch of the History of International Relations that deals with propaganda and pressure as a government weapon of foreign policy.

Dimitri Kitsikis opened the way to the study of technocracy in international politics.

Dimitri Kitsikis has insisted that religion is an essential component of international politics and strove by conferences and other means to facilitate the collaboration between the four main religions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Hinduism.

Dimitri Kitsikis organised Orthodox dialogues with Iranian Shiites and Indian Hindus.

Dimitri Kitsikis worked with Israeli Jews and fundamentalist Catholics from Quebec, where he, along with his students, produced the quarterly journal Aquila which, with a double-headed eagle on the front cover promoted the Byzantine imperial idea in Catholic circles.

Dimitri Kitsikis worked closely with Fethullah Gulen's Hizmet movement.

Dimitri Kitsikis created a model for a new approach of the three political ideologies of liberalism, fascism and communism, and he has published on the history of China.

Dimitri Kitsikis is the founder of the branch of study known as Photohistory.

Dimitri Kitsikis is a recognised poet, with six collections of poetry published by Pierre Jean Oswald, Naaman, Kedros, Hestia and Akritas.

Dimitri Kitsikis's poems were used in the books by the Greek artist Georgette Kambani.

Dimitri Kitsikis regarded the Greek language as the cornerstone of planetary civilization, and he thus deemed it an honour for one to be able to write in Greek.

Dimitri Kitsikis believed that the treatment of the language should be taken out of the hands of Greek philologists who are currently destroying it.

Dimitri Kitsikis defended the continued use of polytonic Greek, traditional spelling and the freedom to write in any literary tone.

Dimitri Kitsikis regarded as erroneous only the implementation of a Greek form not used from the time of Homer to today.

Since 1996, Dimitri Kitsikis has written for a Greek language, self-published geopolitical quarterly called Intermediate Region wherein he extensively discusses his Hellenoturkist viewpoints and his nationalistic outlook, describing the aims of the journal as "to give the knowledge that will enable the revolutionary overthrow of the structure of the present provincial little state of Athens and the building up of a national regime".

Dimitri Kitsikis was former prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu's professor as well as a close adviser of former President Turgut Ozal.

Dimitri Kitsikis is considered to have had a decisive influence, on Davutoglu's geopolitical theory.