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From Both Sides Of The Aegean: Expulsion And Exchange Of Populations, Turkey-Greece 1922-1924
September 12, 20131h 27m
Documentary
Synopsis
Maria Iliou documents the ethnic cleansing and violent expulsion of Greeks from the Ottoman Empire. In the first compulsory "exchange of populations" in the modern world, 1.2 million Greek Orthodox and 400,000 Muslims were forcibly relocated from Turkey to Greece and Greece to Turkey respectively.