The Second Exchange: The Treaty of Lausanne and the Deportation of Greek Americans
Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York CityDuring the 1920s and 30s, the US deported thousands of Greeks, and the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations at Lausanne (1923) inadvertently aided in the process. But was the role of the postwar international system in this "second exchange" mere coincidence? This paper explores how the Treaty of Lausanne enabled the US to deport Ottoman Greek…