Subscriber Essay: The Greco-Turkish Population Transfer (1923)
Today we're going to talk about the 1923 population transfer between Greece and Turkey, which left hundreds of thousands of Greek Muslims and ex-Ottoman Christians forcibly stranded in a new home where in many cases they couldn't speak the language and certainly had no support system in place.
Underpinning the population transfer was the formation of the…
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