Twice a Stranger
Greece, Turkey and the Minorities They Expelled
Bruce Clark(Author)
Granta Books (Publisher)
Published on 6. March 2006
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Hardback
304 pages
978-1-86207-752-2 (ISBN)
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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.
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"'From one end of the island to the other, groans of the Turks preparing to leave were heard, mingling with those of the refugees who had just been uprooted; and one asked oneself what profit there could be in such distress for the monsters who held human grief at nothing' Pandelis Prevelakis"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 162 mm
Width: 241 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-86207-752-2 (9781862077522)
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Bruce Clark is the international security editor of the Economist. He has been diplomatic correspondent of the Financial Times, Moscow correspondent for The Times, and Athens correspondent for Reuters. He has previously written An Empire's New Clothes (Vintage).