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  Twice a Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey (Paperback) By (author) Bruce Clark

  

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  Short Description for Twice a StrangerIn 1923, nearly 2 million citizens of Turkey or Greece were moved across the Aegean because they were the 'wrong' religion. This work presents an account of the first example of mass ethnic cleansing in Europe.
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  • Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS
  • Published: 05 March 2007
  • Format: Paperback 304 pages
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  • Categories: Ethnic Studies | Civil Rights & Citizenship | Political Oppression & Persecution | Social & Cultural History
  • ISBN 13: 9781862079243 ISBN 10: 1862079242
  • Sales rank: 42,777

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• It was a massive, yet little-known landmark in modern history: in 1923, after a long war over the future of the Ottoman world, nearly two million citizens of Turkey or Greece were moved across the Aegean, expelled from their homes because they were the 'wrong' religion. Orthodox Christians were deported from Turkey to Greece, Muslims from Greece to Turkey. At the time, world statesmen hailed the transfer as a solution to the problem of minorities who could not co-exist. Both governments saw the exchange as a chance to create societies where a single culture prevailed. But how did the people who crossed the Aegean feel about this exercise in ethnic engineering? Bruce Clark's fascinating account of these turbulent events draws on new archival research in Greece and Turkey, and interviews with some of the surviving refugees, allowing them to speak for themselves for the first time.