You could give an example from literature to make your case in your thesis. The greatest figure in English literature and one of the greatest in all western literature, William Shakespeare's Othello is a tragedy that is set mostly in Venice and more importantly Cyprus, under the attack of Turks. There is also a film. Othello who used to be mercenary for the Venetian army is now a general in the effort against the Ottomans. He is Othello the Moor, in other words, a North African with dark skin. Othello is despised by most Venetians if his military success is put aside and regarded as an animal and a paragon of brutality. And he is also the one who says this: And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduc'd the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him thus. Here we see, the mercenary, who is despised for his brutality, saves a Venetian from the oppression of a Turk and describes Turk as a circumcised dog. If you think about it for a minute, you will see that there is a strange play on ideas. Shakespeare did not choose a Venetian to curse at Turks, he did not choose a white European, instead chose quite the opposite, who is himself an outcast in Europe. Looking at the psyche of the author and the audience, this whole contrast shows that Europeans regarded Ottomans as a threat that cannot be defeated by themselves. They thought rising in such a short time was not possible for a human as this was beyond a human feat. This does not mean that Europeans were more human in terms of civility (just remember the Crusades, Christian army turned Constantinople, Byzantine capital, into a ruin looting it for 40 years), it just means they had less self-confidence. After the unsuccessful siege of Vienna by the Ottomans, Europeans realized that they created a far more powerful image of Ottomans in their minds than the Ottomans really were. It was possible to defeat Ottomans. So, self confidence started to develop and the grudge of centuries added fuel to the fire. In order to keep their strengths, European ideology put anti-Turkish sentiment into its center. Once prejudice is established, it would take forever to clear it off of the people's minds. The grudge continued till the WWI. Turkey was supposedly dissolved and denominated according to the power of each European state. This time a last push made Turks aware that since the Siege of Vienna, they have been failing not because of their fate, but lack of self-confidence. With the establishment of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal literally ended the grudge, by turning Turkey towards a western ideal. Now, neither Turkey nor Europe are continuing on with this millennium old struggle; however, the deposits of the past hatred are woven into the fabric of western societies in such a way that it will take centuries to rid the prejudice away.

In 1995 a film based on William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello was directed by Oliver Parker and stars Laurence Fishburne as Othello, Irène Jacob as Desdemona, and Kenneth Branagh as Iago. This italki site will help you with your thesis http://www.italki.com/knowledge/page/TIPS%20FOR%20WRITING%20A%20THESIS.htm

This is not a very good topic. Firstly, people do not hate Turks. Where did you get this idea?

You might want to say "some" people. I myself admire Turkey as it is today because it has managed to keep a fairly stable and secular democracy in the middle of an unstable area of the world. Most Americans who are familiar with foreign relations see Turkey as a valuable ally and friend. Some Germans resent Turks living there for the same reason that all foreigners living in a country for a long time have been resented by some of the native populace - they are different. It is not so much that they are Turks, or that Germans today are particularly racist - just that the Turks are different and there in great numbers. I was witness to this in my four years in Germany. This same situation - long-term resident foreigners living in a country - is repeated in many places other than Germany and with groups other than Turks. Some (not all) Greeks resent the Turks because of the centuries-long conflicts between the two countries. The memories and resentments resulting from such a history die down only slowly. A book about the Turks (among others) in Germany and an examination of resurgent racism is found in a book "Jews, Turks, and Other Strangers: Roots of Prejudice in Modern Germany", by Jerome S. Legge, Jr. I haven't read it myself, but it seems to cover the subject you wish to investigate.

thank you! I will try to read this book!