Most chose to leave in 1919, before the population exchange.

The criteria for the population exchange was not exclusively confined to ethnicity or mother language, but on religion as well.

Unfortunately most of the minority, specially Greeks had to leave the country due to the population exchange.

The population exchange moreover led to a decline of the cultural landscape.

In the aftermath of partition, a huge population exchange occurred between the two newly formed states.

Palestinian refugees, however, never accepted the idea of a population exchange.

Hatay joined Turkey in 1939, thus did not face the population exchanges of the 1920.

As a result of these population exchanges, both parts are now relatively homogeneous, where religion is concerned.

Mikrasiatiki, from the Greek refugees of the 1922 population exchange.

We remember the so-called population exchange between Turkey and Greece.