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A GREEK-TURKISH ANTAGONISM UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE LAUSANNE TREATY
A GREEK-TURKISH ANTAGONISM UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE LAUSANNE TREATY

Author(s): Corina-Maria Lenard
Subject(s): Diplomatic history, Political history, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: Minorities; treaty; exchange of population; diplomacy; League of Nations;

Summary/Abstract: This paper investigates the League of Nations` reports from the Greek perspective in the eye of the population exchange from 1923. Known as an indissoluble phenomenon connected to the Treaty of Lausanne, the Greek-Turkish exchange of population might be considered the last chapter of the war treaties series after the First World War. Despite the fact that this subject has been analyze so far with some superficiality in the Romanian historiography, the centenary of the treaty which is approaching more and more, make us to reconsider the international contemporary political debates of the protection of ethnic minorities and their rights.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 400-409
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian