From Both Sides Of The Aegean: Expulsion And Exchange Of Populations, Tukey-Greece 1922-1924 (movie)
Από τις Δύο Πλευρές του Αιγαίου: Διωγμός και Ανταλλαγή Πληθυσμών, Τουρκία-Ελλάδα 1922-1924- Production country: Greece, United States of America
- Producer: Maria Ilioú
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 9/12/2013
- Run time: 87 min.
Movie description
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.
