Greco-Turkish War

Based on these facts, the Greeks will be extinct around the middle of the following century…

His dissertation was published in Greek with the title “The Islamization of the Greeks of Asia Minor in the period 1919-1925. A study of memory”

The Treaty of Lausanne encompasses the 143 articles of the treaty itself, along with 17 conventions, protocols and declarations negotiated between the defeated Turkey and all the victorious powers of World War I. It is not an agreement between Greece and Turkey.

The controversy that followed New Democracy MP Angelos Syrigos' claim that some articles of the Lausanne Treaty - notably the one on the extent of the military presence on the eastern Aegean islands - were out of date, has brought attention to the uncertainty surrounding the text of the 1923 agreement that established the borders of Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey.

Direct access to the islands of Imbros (or Gokceada in Turkish) and Tenedos (or Bozcaada) has been a perennial request of the natives of the two islands. Particularly on Imbros, the largest of the two, where, under the Lausanne Treaty, Ankara had a contractual obligation to safeguard rights and property (and certainly did so only piecemeal), there is a problem of access from Greece.

One hundred and one years ago, Ataturk's army expelled my great-grandmother and her family from Yeronda, now known as Didim, their ancestral homeland in Anatolia. I actively campaign for the American and Canadian governments to recognize the Greek genocide. I constantly criticize Ankara's democratic back-sliding, mistreatment of minorities and aggressive foreign policy.

This year marks the centenary of the Lausanne Treaty, a treaty that has survived a number of twists and turns in world history. Bruce Clark, a contributor to The Economist and the author of "Twice A Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey" and "Athens, City of Wisdom," joins Thanos Davelis to look at what the Treaty of Lausanne has meant on either side of the Aegean.

Türkiye marked the centennial anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne on July 24, commemorating the landmark pact that officially recognized the modern Turkish state.

The anniversary of the Pontian Greek Genocide "reminds the international community of the importance, for the peaceful coexistence of peoples, of recognising crimes against humanity in order to prevent their repetition in the future," President Katerina Sakellaropoulou has said.

The year 1896, following the first modern Olympic Games, was defined by a widespread sense of optimism in Athens, a rather insignificant city of just 130,000. It was a time when "little Greece" began cultivating aspirations of victory, reaching out to realize the Great Idea by reclaiming the territories of the Byzantine Empire - including Constantinople, the center of Hellenism.