Population Exchange - The Story of the Lost Generation

While the Ottoman Empire withdrew after the Balkan War, losing almost all of its territory in Europe, it had to leave behind a mass of people numbering in the hundreds of thousands. The hundreds of thousands in question were Muslims who had suddenly become citizens of a completely different state, even in minority status, while they were Ottoman subjects. This problematic situation, which lasted for about ten years, was resolved due to both the negative conditions of the minority Muslims and the efforts of Greece and Turkey, which were trying to establish a homogeneous national state, to solve this problem in their favor. The solution found was an unprecedented practice in the world until that day: the mutual exchange of Orthodox Greeks and Muslims, that is, population exchange. In this context, hundreds of thousands of people, called mubadils, came to Turkey from many different regions of Greece, just like those who went to Greece from Anatolia. Until today, the life stories of the exchanged people have not been scrutinized beyond the memories told in fragments. This book in your hands deals with the stories of the exchanged people, which started with the destruction caused by the Balkan War, before the exchange, during the exchange process and, most importantly, with what happened after they came to Turkey; It tells the story of people who became the subjects of a process in which history was rewritten. So the story of the Lausanne exchanges...



Number of Pages: 343

Year of Printing: 2004


Language: Turkish
Publisher: İletişim Publishing

First Print Year: 2003

Language Turkish