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Crossing the Aegean : an appraisal of the 1923 compulsory population exchange between Greece and Turkey

Following the defeat of the Greek Army in 1922 by nationalist Turkish forces, the 1923 Lausanne Convention specified the first internationally ratified compulsory population exchange. It proved to be a watershed in the eastern Mediterranean, having far-reaching ramifications both for the new Turkish Republic, and for Greece which hadto absorb over a million refugees. Known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe by the Greeks, it marked the establishment of the independent nation state for the Turks. The consequences of this event have received surprisingly little attention despite the considerable relevance for the contemporary situation in the Balkans. This volume addresses the challenge of writing history from both sides of the Aegean and provides, for the first time, a forum for multidisciplinary dialogue across national boundaries
eBook, English, 2003
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Berghahn Books, New York, 2003
Forced migration, volume 12
History
1 online resource (318 pages)
9781571817679, 9781571815620, 9780857457028, 1571817670, 1571815627, 0857457020
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Pt I: Introduction and overview. 1. 'Unmixing peoples' in the Aegean region / Renée Hirschon
2. Consequences of the Lausanne Convention: an overview / Renée Hirschon
Pt II: Political, economic, and policy aspects. 3. Lausanne revisited: population exchanges in international law and policy / Michael Barutciski
4. The consequences of the exchange of populations for Turkey / Çaǧlar Keyder
5. 1922: political continuations and realignments in the Greek state / Thanos Veremis
6. Economic consequences following refugee settlement in Greek Macedonia, 1923-1932 / Elisabeh Kontogiorgi
7. Homogenising the nation, Turkifying the economy: the Turkish experience of population exchange reconsidered / Ayhan Aktar
8. The story of those who stayed: lessons from Articles 1 and 2 of the 1923 Converntion
9. Religion or ethnicity: the identity issue of the minorities in Greece and Turkey / Alexis Alexandris
10. Inter-war town planning and the refugee problem in Greece: temporary 'solutions' and long-term dysfunctions / Alexandra Yerolympos
11. When Greeks meet other Greeks: settlement policy issues in the contemporary Greek context / Eftihia Voutira Pt III: Social and cultural aspects. 12. Housing and the architecturla expressions of Asia Minor Greeks before and after 1923 / Vassilis Colonas
13. Space, place and identity: memory and religion in two Cappadocian Greek settlements / Vasso Stelaku
14. Lessons in refugeehood: the experience of forced migrants in Turkey / Tolga Köker (with Leylâ Keskiner)
15. Muslim Cretans in Turkey: the reformulation of ethnic identity in an Aegean community / Sophia Koufopoulou
16. The exchange of populations in Turkish literature: the undertone of texts / Hercules Millas
17. The myth of Asia Minor in Greek fiction / Peter Mackridge
18. Between Orientalism and Occidentalism: the contribution of Asia Minor refugees to Greek popular song, and its reception / Stathis Gauntlett