A view from Ayvalık, one of the last towns in Turkey where you can hear Greek spoken as fluently as Turkish in the streets. Originally an entirely-Greek town, Aivaly was settled by Hellenephone Turkish immigrants from Crete in the compulsory population exchange, the "catastrophe" between Greece and Turkey in 1923.
Thursday, 21 June 2007
At Ayvalık
A view from Ayvalık, one of the last towns in Turkey where you can hear Greek spoken as fluently as Turkish in the streets. Originally an entirely-Greek town, Aivaly was settled by Hellenephone Turkish immigrants from Crete in the compulsory population exchange, the "catastrophe" between Greece and Turkey in 1923.
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