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Monday, February 19, 2018

The difficulties of exchanging territory in the Balkans

In 1923 GREECE and Turkey agreed to exchange some 2m people. Mostly Greek-speaking Christian Orthodox citizens of Turkey were sent to GREECE, and Muslims from GREECE were sent to Turkey. It was a brutal relocation, but, note its defenders, GREECE and Turkey have not fought a war since. The only ...


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