ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the unmixing carried out through the Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey was perceived in public and academic discourses. It explores diachronic perspective charting some of the early discussions immediately after the signing of the Lausanne Convention to contemporary time. The chapter describes the Population Exchange as a key aspect of Greek-Turkish relations and as a process which although shortlived marked the future of both states and their respective populations. The compulsory nature of the Population Exchange undoubtedly functioned as the most drastic means for the achievement of ethnic homogenisation. Early judicial critiques have pointed out that the Lausanne Convention, which officially implemented legal ethnic-cleansing policies. Since the early 2000s, there has been an ideological and representational shift in the historiography of the Population Exchange. The analytic and interpretative shift in scientific research overlapped with a renewed interest in the Population Exchange by the wider public too.
