From Both Sides Of The Aegean: Expulsion And Exchange Of Populations, Turkey-Greece 1922-1924 2013

Directed by Maria Ilioú · Documentary · 87 min

Maria Iliou documents the ethnic cleansing and violent expulsion of Greeks from the Ottoman Empire. In the first compulsory "exchange of populations" in the modern world, 1.2 million Greek Orthodox and 400,000 Muslims were forcibly relocated from Turkey to Greece and Greece to Turkey respectively.