Entre Grèce et Turquie : une situation délicate, les minorités

The Muslims from West Thrace and the Orthodox Greek from Constantinople were excluded from the compulsory exchange of Greek and Turkish populations, decided in Lausanne in January 1923 (and later the Greeks from Imbros and Tenedos). They found themselves in a quite delicate situation as the reciproc...

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Main Author: Joëlle Dalègre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre d'Études Balkaniques 2004-01-01
Series:Cahiers Balkaniques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ceb/4474
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description The Muslims from West Thrace and the Orthodox Greek from Constantinople were excluded from the compulsory exchange of Greek and Turkish populations, decided in Lausanne in January 1923 (and later the Greeks from Imbros and Tenedos). They found themselves in a quite delicate situation as the reciprocity suggested by the article no. 45 became sometimes an occasion for a politics of reprisals, as the two minorities, strengthened in their particularism, were considered inassimilable and cumbersome by the two States for which assimilation was the only way to integration. That’s why so many measures were taken in Turkey as in Greece, all of them aiming at reducing the demographic, economic and cultural vitality of the two minorities; however, the late improvement in the greek-turkish relations and the new European frame are really bringing a change in the general atmosphere.
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Entre Grèce et Turquie : une situation délicate, les minorités
Cahiers Balkaniques
Greece
Istanbul
History
Twentieth century
minorities (in Greece)
minorities (in Turkey)
title Entre Grèce et Turquie : une situation délicate, les minorités
title_full Entre Grèce et Turquie : une situation délicate, les minorités
title_fullStr Entre Grèce et Turquie : une situation délicate, les minorités
title_full_unstemmed Entre Grèce et Turquie : une situation délicate, les minorités
title_short Entre Grèce et Turquie : une situation délicate, les minorités
title_sort entre grece et turquie une situation delicate les minorites
topic Greece
Istanbul
History
Twentieth century
minorities (in Greece)
minorities (in Turkey)
url https://journals.openedition.org/ceb/4474
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