Sia Anagnostopoulou

Athanasia "Sia" Anagnostopoulou (; born March 1959 She attended the 4th Lyceum of Patras before moving to Athens.

Anagnostopoulou studied at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Athens.

From 2000 to 2003, Anagnostopoulou headed the Cypriot Foreign Ministry's research team on issues concerning Turkey and the Turkish-Cypriot community. She sits on the Standing Committee on National Defense and Foreign Affairs and on the Committee on European Affairs.

On 18 July 2015, Anagnostopoulou was appointed as the Alternate Minister for European Affairs, succeeding Nikolaos Chountis, who had resigned on 13 July. Following the appointment of the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras, Anagnostopoulou was made the Alternate Minister of Education, Research and Religious Affairs.

Personal life Anagnostopoulou is fluent in four languages: Greek, French, Turkish, and English.

Works

Books The Turkish Modernization: The Tortuous Path of Kemalism (, Vivliorama, Athens: 2004) The Passage from the Ottoman Empire to the Nation-States: The Case of Greece and Cyprus (Isis Press, Istanbul: 2004) Asia Minor: The Greek Orthodox Communities, 19th Century - 1919 (, Εllinika Grammata, Athens: 1997),

Articles and papers "The Complexities of Greek Nationalism in its Cypriot Version" (A. Aktar, N. Kizilyurek, and Umut Özkirimli (ed.), Nationalism in the Troubled Triangle: Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, MacMillan, 2010) "The ‘Nation’ of the Rum Sings of the Sultan: The Many Faces of Ottomanism" (L. Tanatar Baruh and V. Kechriotis (ed.), Economy and Society on Both Shores of the Aegean, Alpha Bank Historical Archives, 2010, pp. 79–105) "The Europeanisation and de-Europeanisation of Islam", (H. Yilmaz and Cagla Aykac (ed.), Perceptions of Islam in Europe, Tauris, London, 2009) "The Complexities of Greek Nationalism and Turkish Cypriots for their Release" (""; F. Tsimpiridou and D. Stamatopoulos (ed.), , Κritiki, Athens, 2008, pp. 35–62) "1919-1922: The Ethnarchismos of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Frame of the Great Idea" (""; Istorica, Volume 25, (47/2007), pp. 373–420.) "Bin Yasa Padisahimiz: The Millet-i Rum Singing the Praises of the Sultan in the Framework of Helleno-Ottomanism" (Archivum Ottomanicum: Mélanges en l’honneur d’Elizabeth A. Zachariadou, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2006, pp. 47–78) "The problem of identities in the second half of the 20th century in Cyprus", (G. Bellingeri and M. Kappler (ed.), Cipro oggi, Casa Editrice Il Ponte, Venice, 2005, pp. 57–65)

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