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.
September 12, 2013
Released
Από τις Δύο Πλευρές του Αιγαίου: Διωγμός και Ανταλλαγή Πληθυσμών, Τουρκία-Ελλάδα 1922-1924
1h 27min
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English, Greek, Turkish