Emine Yesim Bedlek: 1 book
Imagined Communities in Greece and Turkey
Trauma and the Population Exchanges under Atat?rk
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
In 1923 the Turkish government, under its new leader Kemal Atatürk, signed a renegotiated Balkan Wars treaty with the major powers of the day and Greece. This treaty provided for the forced exchange of 1.3 million Christians from Anatolia to Greece, in return for 30,000 Greek Muslims. The mass migration...
