The most intensive migration movement of the Republican Period is the exchange of Turkish and Greek people in 1923. The exchange protocol accepted in Lausanne talks comes into effect since the 1st of May, 1923 and in this process, except Western Thrace, it is mutually accepted that Muslims in Greece will come to Turkey and the Orthodox Ottoman citizens will be sent to Greece.
The result of this change is that immigrants and refugees, who are identified as exchangees, were resettled in the houses and properties that are left behind by Greeks, and the Greeks leaving Anatolia were resettled in the homes and properties of the Turks according to the law on property and settlement of immigrants that came from Greece and Balkans.
Exchangees, who experienced many difficulties before coming to Turkey because of the homogenous nation-building efforts of Balkan states and fanatics in Greece, run into new difficulties especially in their settlements since 1924. While the majority of exchangees lived in poverty until they adapted to their new location and became a producer, others left their settlements and maintained their lives elsewhere.
The aim of this study is to examine settlement problems, replacement efforts and the events during the resettlement policy of the Government experienced by immigrants coming to Denizli since 1924 as a part of exchange. During the study, the written sources and the developments experienced by the immigrants coming to Denizli will be examined by using the Prime Ministry Republic Archive documents.
Keywords: Denizli, Cemal Bey, population exchange, proplems.
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