The Ankara Agreement of 1930 and the minorities

The year 1930 constitutes a turning point in Greco-Turkish relations. This year is considered to be more than the beginning of a mere rapprochement; it signifies the renewal of the “Greco-Turkish era.” According to authors such as Dimitri Kitsikis, ¹ this era resembled the Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire between approximately the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. As Damla Demirözü's work shows, ² the second Golden Age, which started in the 1930s, was the result of a normalization of relations between the two states.