The Dowry of the State? : The Politics of Abandoned Property and the Population Exchange in Turkey, 1921-1945
Journal: Bamberger Orientstudien
Year: 2017

The consul wrote about the "restitution of Greek citizens" -a Freudian slip? 3The archives of the American consulate in zmir (kept at the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Maryland) hold hundreds of such letters.Having been forced to leave the country at the end of the Greco-Turkish war in 1922, Greeks and Armenians were trying to sell or lease the land and houses they had left behind.As Mr. Illiopoulos, they were in possession of all documents of ownership, and thus