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Imagined Communities in Greece and Turkey: Trauma and the Population Exchanges under Atat?rk
Emine Yesim Bedlek
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Description for Imagined Communities in Greece and Turkey: Trauma and the Population Exchanges under Atat?rk
Hardcover. Series: International Library of Twentieth Century History. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 1DVT; 3JJG; HBJD; HBJF1; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
In 1923 the Turkish government, under its new leader Kemal Ataturk, 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 that ensued was a humanitarian catastrophe - of the 1.3 million Christians relocated it is estimated only 150,000 were successfully integrated into the Greek state. Furthermore, because the treaty was ethnicity-blind, tens of thousands of Muslim Greeks (ethnically and linguistically) were forced into Turkey against their will. Both ... Read more
In 1923 the Turkish government, under its new leader Kemal Ataturk, 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 that ensued was a humanitarian catastrophe - of the 1.3 million Christians relocated it is estimated only 150,000 were successfully integrated into the Greek state. Furthermore, because the treaty was ethnicity-blind, tens of thousands of Muslim Greeks (ethnically and linguistically) were forced into Turkey against their will. Both ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
International Library of Twentieth Century History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784531270
SKU
V9781784531270
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About Emine Yesim Bedlek
Emine Yesim Bedlek is Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at Bingol University, Turkey.
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