Η ΩΡΑ ΤΗΣ ΑΝΤΑΛΛΑΓΗΣ. ΟΙ ΑΝΤΑΛΛΑΞΙΜΟΙ ΜΟΥΣΟΥΛΜΑΝΟΙ ΣΤΟΝ ΤΟΠΙΚΟ ΤΥΠΟ: ΟΙ ΠΕΡΙΠΤΩΣΕΙΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΡΗΤΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑΣ

Abstract

This article refers to an unknown, mutatis mutandis, side of the Greek-Turk¬ish population exchange after the Convention signed between the two countries during the Lausanne Conference in 1923. Its main goal is to examine how local societies experienced the compulsory leaving of the Muslim element from the Greek State. The research is mainly based on the local Press of Macedonia and Crete, two Greek areas from which the majority of the Muslims fell within the terms of the Convention, depart¬ed. Bibliographic references to Oral History and Fiction are also part of this research. The years of the interest are 1923 up to 1925, when the compulsory exchange was almost completed. Emphasis was given to simi¬larities and differentiations between the two cases, as well as to the mod¬ification and alteration of the view and the experience of the Exchange. As months went by and the Greek refugees from Asia Minor kept on coming to the Greek territory, changes on the view of the newspapers might reflect or create (?) a shift of local societies’ point of view about the Muslim ‘‘muchacir’’.