EVENT INFORMATION

30
Yanüari
1923

Convention mandates compulsory Greek-Turkish population exchange

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📅 30 Yanüari 1923 📍 Grecia, Turkia

The Lausanne convention required the compulsory exchange of most Greek Orthodox residents of Turkey and Muslim residents of Greece, with limited exceptions. It turned religious identity into a criterion for national belonging and uprooted families from homes, land, and community networks. The exchange was a postwar consequence of violence, nationalism, and state-making.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Eleftherios Venizelos

İsmet İnönü

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Greece

Turkey

Mixed Commission for the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations