Honours Anatolia’s lost Greek culture, abruptly ended after 2000 years by the Greek-Turkish population exchanges of 1923. By 1922 most ethnic Greeks had fled the Anatolia region of Asia Minor, a fact made official in 1923 at the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations. Interestingly, it was neither ethnicity nor language that put people on the mandatory exchange list, but religion. Even native-speaking Greek Muslims, and native-speaking Turkish Orthodox, were required to switch countries.
