Local History of the National Struggle 1918-1923 (Vol 6): Artvin - Rize - Trabzon - Gümüşhane Giresun - Ordu - Samsun

The Population Movements of the Greek-Grecian Towards the Demographic Structure of the Eastern Black Sea Region

From the first establishment time of Greece has widened continously its lands against Ottoman Empire. From the 1830s onwards, Greece has engaged in intensive activities in order to provide the majority of the Greek population in the regions where it has ambitions. Greece, with its armistice period, focused on this issue and started a major activity in order to ensure that the Greeks who migrated under the leadership of the Fener-Greek Patriarchate returned to their former locations and migrated to Istanbul, Western Anatolia and Black Sea regions. Thus, he wanted to create a de facto basis for the 12th article of the Wilson Principles by providing the Greek majority in these three regions. For this purpose, it has engaged in intensive activities to establish a Greek majority in the regions it targets through the organizations it has established. In this study, the organization, function and activities of the organizations and organizations that they have established with the aim of forming a Greek majority in Anatolia will be emphasized.

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Prof. Dr. Salim Gökçen
DOI: 10.53478/TUBA.978-625-8352-68-9.ch09