Twice A Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey

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Book cover: Twice A Stranger

Twice A Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey (also published as Twice A Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and Turkey) is a book by Bruce Clark published in 2006 concerning the population exchange between Greece and Turkey which took place in the early 1920s, following the Treaty of Lausanne.

As well as giving a detailed account of the background to the exchange, its implementation and immediate consequences, the author examines the continuing effects which it has had on the politics, culture and national identity of both the states concerned. He focuses particularly on the ambivalent feelings of the few surviving expellees and their descendants towards their former homelands.

Structure of the book

• Preface: Lausanne's children (pp. xi-xvii);

In the preface, the author reflects on the phenomenon of nationalism as it manifested itself in these events and on parallels and contrasts with other later situations such as the Expulsion of Germans after World War II, the "Palestinian exodus" and the parallel Jewish exodus from Arab lands, the population movements in Bosnia in the 1990s and the ongoing situation in Northern Ireland.

• Introduction: A world torn asunder (pp. 1–19)
• Chapters

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No. 14: Hagia Sophia, Trabzon

Awards

• The writer was awarded with the Runciman Prize for this book in 2007.

See also

• Outline of Greek genocide
• Population exchange
• Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire
• Ethnic cleansing
• Millet (Ottoman Empire)
• Religious nationalism
• Kemalist Ideology
• Constantinople pogroms
• Cyprus problem
• Human rights in Turkey

Related books

• Üngör, U. Ü. (2011). The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913–1950. United Kingdom: OUP Oxford.
• Morris, B., Zeʼevi, D. (2019). The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924. United Kingdom: Harvard University Press.
• Nationalism and Non-Muslim Minorities in Turkey, 1915 - 1950. (2021). (n.p.): Transnational Press London.

External links

• Book review in The New York Times
• When worlds collide – review in The Guardian
• Book review by the Council on Foreign Relations
• Book review by Spyros Themelis