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Name of Object:

Migration preparations from Lemnos island to Turkey

Location:

Istanbul, Turkey

Holding Institution:

Population Exchange Museum (The Foundation of Lausanne Treaty Emigrants)

 About Population Exchange Museum (The Foundation of Lausanne Treaty Emigrants), Istanbul

Date of Object:

1924

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Photograph

Provenance:

Istanbul

Description:

The 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey was based upon religious identity, and involved the Greek Orthodox citizens of Turkey and the Muslim citizens of Greece. The "Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations" was signed at Lausanne, Switzerland, on 30 January 1923, by the governments of Greece and Turkey. During the migration waves during the 1896-97 riots in Crete, 40,000 Cretan Muslims had to migrate to territories under Ottoman rule: Lebanon, Syria and Anatolia. This photograph pertains to migration preparations from Lemnos to Turkey in 1924.

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

Ruhi İyigün's Collection

Citation of this web page:

"Migration preparations from Lemnos island to Turkey" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;tr;81;en

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MWNF Working Number: TR2 077

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