"A story on minorities Twice a Stranger by Bruce Clark
Bruce Clark wrote a book for the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923, following a war between the two countries, in the aftermaths of the World War I. The title is very characteristic :Twice a Stranger, with subtitle Greece, Turkey and the minorities they expelled. It is about 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."
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