Crossing the Aegean
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Crossing the Aegean

An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Crossing the Aegean

An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Lists
  4. Notes on Terminology and Orthography
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Part I- Introduction: Background and Overview
  8. Chapter 1- ‘Unmixing Peoples’ in the Aegean Region
  9. Chapter 2- The Consequences of the Lausanne Convention
  10. Part II- Political, Economic and Policy Aspects
  11. Chapter 3- Lausanne Revisited: POPULATION EXCHANGES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLICY
  12. Chapter 4- The Consequences of the Exchange of Populations for Turkey
  13. Chapter 5- 1922: Political Continuations and Realignments in the Greek State
  14. Chapter 6- Economic Consequences following Refugee Settlement in Greek Macedonia, 1923–1932
  15. Chapter 7- Homogenising the Nation, Turkifying the Economy: THE TURKISH EXPERIENCE OF POPULATION EXCHANGE RECONSIDERED
  16. Chapter 8- The Story of Those Who Stayed: LESSONS FROM ARTICLES 1 AND 2 OF THE 1923 CONVENTION
  17. Chapter 9- Religion or Ethnicity: THE IDENTITY ISSUE OF THE MINORITIES IN GREECE AND TURKEY
  18. Chapter 10- Inter-war Town Planning and the Refugee Problem in Greece: TEMPORARY ‘SOLUTIONS’ AND LONG-TERM DYSFUNCTIONS
  19. Chapter 11- When Greeks Meet Other Greeks: SETTLEMENT POLICY ISSUES IN THE CONTEMPORARY GREEK CONTEXT
  20. Parrt III- Social and Cultural Aspects
  21. Chapter 12- Housing and the Architectural Expression of Asia Minor Greeks Before and After 1923
  22. Chapter 13- Space, Place and Identity: MEMORY AND RELIGION IN TWO CAPPADOCIAN GREEK SETTLEMENTS
  23. Chapter 14- Lessons in Refugeehood: THE EXPERIENCE OF FORCED MIGRANTS IN TURKEY
  24. Chapter 15- Muslim Cretans in Turkey: THE REFORMULATION OF ETHNIC IDENTITY IN AN AEGEAN COMMUNITY
  25. Chapter 16- The Exchange of Populations in Turkish Literature: THE UNDERTONE OF TEXTS
  26. Chapter 17- The Myth of Asia Minor in Greek Fiction
  27. Chapter 18- Between Orientalism and Occidentalism: THE CONTRIBUTION OF ASIA MINOR REFUGEES TO GREEK POPULAR SONG, AND ITS RECEPTION
  28. References
  29. Appendix
  30. Index