Ottoman Empire


The Paris Peace Conference was tasked with setting the peace terms for the Central Powers after their defeat in the First World War. The Treaty of Versailles dealt with the principal belligerent, Germany. It was, however, accompanied by four less well known treaties dealing with the other countries. The Treaty of Sèvres was drawn up to deal with the Ottoman Empire but, by the time it […]

A slice of Turkey


In the early 1920s, millions of people moved from either Greece to Turkey or from Turkey to Greece. Ancient communities were uprooted in a devastating campaign of mass ethnic cleansing and nation building. It is known in both Greek and Turkish as the Exchange and is almost forgotten in the rest of Europe against a early twentieth strewn with tragedy and hatred. There is a historical […]

The Exchange