Consensual deportation. Greece and Turkey: a long-awai- ted ethnic homogeneity (1923-1927)

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  • Albert Sánchez Navarro Autonomy University of Barcelona. (GReHA)

Keywords:

League of Nations, exchange, deportation, ethnic homogeneity, Ot- toman Empire, Mustafa Kemal, Eleftherios Venizelos, Asia Minor

Abstract

The convulsive political and nationalist context that occurred within the Ot- toman Empire since 1912 after the war with Italy, led to persecutions, transfers and expulsions of both Muslim and Christian populations throughout the Balkan Peninsula andAsia Minor.For this reason,EleftheriosVenizelos and Mustafa Kemal agreed to a population exchange in 1923, consented to by the League of Nations and the Allies, with the aim of trying to elaborate a homogeneous state, in ethnic terms.The impact caused by the deportation of a million and a half people, implied social and economic problems due to the inability to absorb so much population from both states.Today continues to have an impact.

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Author Biography

Albert Sánchez Navarro, Autonomy University of Barcelona. (GReHA)

Albert Sánchez Navarro, es graduado en historia por la Universidad Autónoma de Bar- celona. Especializado en historia social y económica contemporánea. Con una maestría en Historia Contemporánea cursada en la misma universidad que el grado, centrándome en los aspectos socio-políticos del etno-nacionalismo en Turquía y Grecia. E interesado en el Próximo Oriente, concretamente el Imperio Otomano y la Turquía moderna.Y, actualmente, doctorando en el programa de Historia comparada, social y política de la misma universidad, interesado en los servicios de control y orden público

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2022-01-26

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Sánchez Navarro, A. (2022). Consensual deportation. Greece and Turkey: a long-awai- ted ethnic homogeneity (1923-1927). Segle XX, Revista Catalana d’Història, (14), 41–66. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/segleXX/article/view/38183

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