Modern History on Greek minority in Turkey

Modern Greek-Turkish relations are based on the 1923 "Treaty of Lausanne". This Treaty formally ended the Greek-Turkish war of 1919-1922 while establishing as permanent the present borders between the nations in the region of Thrace. The Lausanne Treaty is significent here only for what it states concerning the Greek minority of Turkey.

A) Exchange of populations

B) The question of political claims to Constantinople

C) The Treaty of Lausanne and the Greeks

D) "Kristaalnacht" Turkish style

E) Turkish hostility 1964-1971

 

The expulsion of the Greeks from Constantinople