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The ghost town of Kayaköy (Livisi) in southwestern Anatolia.The Greek village was abandoned during the 1923 population exchange. [1]The 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey [a] stemmed from the "Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations" signed at Lausanne, Switzerland, on 30 January 1923, by the governments of Greece and Turkey.
After the end of the Greco-Turkish War, most of the Greeks remaining in the Ottoman Empire were transferred to Greece under the terms of the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey. The criteria for the population exchange were not exclusively based on ethnicity or mother language, but on religion as well.
The agreement provided for the simultaneous expulsion of Orthodox Christians from Turkey to Greece and of Muslims from Greece (particularly from the north of the country) to Turkey. These involuntary population transfers involved approximately two million people, around 1.5 million Anatolian Greeks and 500,000 Muslims in Greece.
Greece and Turkey both fight in the Korean War on the side of the UN forces. [212] 1952: 18 February: Greece and Turkey officially become members of NATO. [213] 1953: 28 February: The Balkan Pact between Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia is enacted. [214] 1955: 6–7 September: The Istanbul pogrom, in which the Greek population of Istanbul were ...
[9] [10] The actual Ottoman-era Greek Muslims of Macedonia had been included among those 'Turks' expatriated to Turkey in 1924. including the Vallahades. In contrast, the Western Thrace Turks are completely distinct from those referred to as Greek Muslims and were exempt from the terms of the population exchange.
Pages in category "Population exchange between Greece and Turkey" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Greece and Turkey agreed on Wednesday to resume talks and confidence-building measures as they hailed a new "positive climate" in ties after more than a year of tensions between the historic foes.
The population transfers with Bulgaria and Turkey that took place in the early ... Greece's population census of 1961 found that 10.9% of the total population was ...