Greek-Turkish Convention on Mandatory Exchange of populations (1923). Turkey after victory in the Greek-Turkish war (1919-1922), at the Peace Conference in Lausanne, has imposed on Greece Convention on the mandatory exchange of Greek population from Turkey (about 1,500,000 inhabitants) and the Muslim population of Greece. The Convention (30. ⅰ 1923) was an obligatory exchange of the populations (1. ⅴ 1923). The mandatory exchange was excluded by the inhabitants of Constantinople (from before 30. 1918) and the Muslim population in western Thrace, east of the Turkish-Greek border determined by the Bucharest Peace Accord. Greece’s government watched its interest from the exchange of populations in the possibility of changing the demographic composition of the population in the annexed seaside part of Macedonia with forced eviction, except for the Macedonian Orthodox and the Macedonian Muslim population and colonization of the Greek population, evicted by Turkey. The obligation to compulsory exchange of the populations, envisaged by the Convention, was incorporated in the Peace Accord (24th 1923) in Lausanne. Turkey and Greece in Ankara (25. 1925) signed a protocol for the application of the exchange of the settlements. During the implementation of the Convention and the provisions of the Peace Trade Agreement, many problems occurred in Athens (1. 1926) Agreement on liquidation of immovations of exchanged populations in Greece and Turkey, and Convention (10. ⅵ 1930) for definitely liquidation of issues related to the application of the Lozanean and the Athens Agreement for the exchange of the settlements between the Republic of Greece and the Republic of Turkey. It is thought that about 44 thousand members of the Macedonian Muslim population in Turkey were eviled from the Aegean part of Macedonia. Lit.: Macedonia in bilateral and multilateral agreements of the Balkan states, and Skopje, 2000; Stoyan Acisovski and Irena attitudes-Remeders, minorities in the Balkans (ⅹⅹ century), Skopje, 2004. M. Min.
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