The impoverished Greek state was unable to take them in, and so Nansen devised a scheme for a population exchange whereby half a million Turks in Greece were returned to Turkey, with full financial compensation, while further loans facilitated the absorption of the refugee Greeks into their homeland.
Negara Yunani tak dapat mengambil mereka, sehingga Nansen membawakan sebuah skema untuk pertukaran penduduk dimana satu setengah juta orang Turki di Yunani dikembalikan ke Turki, dengan kompensasi finansial penuh, sementara bantuan lainnya memfasilitasi pemulangan para pengungsi Yunani ke kampung halaman mereka.