The Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and its impact on the Muslim population of Crete
The Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and its impact on the Muslim population of Crete
Speakers: Bruce Clark, author of Twice a Stranger: How mass expulsion forged modern Greece and Turkey, and Athens: City of Wisdom; and Sophia Koufopoulou, a Greek social anthropologist who has been conducting research in Turkey since 1990 and is the author of a study of the Muslim Cretans
Co-ordinator: David Holton
The Treaty of Lausanne imposed a compulsory exchange of populations, with few exceptions, between the Christian and Muslim peoples of Greece and Turkey. One group whose fortunes have not been extensively studied is the Greek-speaking Muslims of Crete, most of whom eventually settled in Turkey. We shall examine the lives and experiences of this minority group in Crete before 1923 and subsequently on Cunda island, formerly Moschonisi.
