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Why were Muslims in Western Thrace and Christians in Constantinople excluded from the population exchange?
In the 1923 compulsory population exchange between Greece and Turkey, most Muslims living in Greece were forcibly moved to Turkey, and most Christians living in Turkey were forcibly moved to Greece.
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Why was religion used as the basis of Turkey-Greece population exchange instead of language, ethnicity, etc.?
In 1923, Turkey and Greece exchanged parts of their population, by forcibly denaturalizing certain population and expelling them to the other country. Interestingly, the criteria of being exchanged ...
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What happened to Muslim spouses who converted to Christianity during the 1923 Graeco-Turkish population exchange?
The Greek - Turkish Population Exchange Convention was signed on 30 January 1923. The population exchange was based on religious identity - involving denaturalization of the Orthodox Christian ...
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What happened to those ethnic Greeks who converted to Islam during the Ottoman empire?
I got a little inspiration from a previous post on the History part:
"Why were Albanians the only nation in the Balkans who converted to Islam during the Ottoman occupation?"
Does anyone know ...
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