Description The 1923 Greek-Turkish Population exchange forcibly relocated one and a half million people: Muslims in Greece were resettled in Turkey, and Greek Orthodox Christians in Turkey were moved to Greece.
Strikingly, the exchange was purported.
Similar segregative policies--such as creating walls, partitions, and apartheids--have followed in its wake.
This landmark event set a legal precedent for Population management on the basis of religious or ethnic difference.
Description The 1923 Greek-Turkish Population exchange forcibly relocated one and a half million people: Muslims in Greece were resettled in Turkey, and Greek Orthodox Christians in Turkey were moved to Greece