Two views from a majestic, abandoned olive oil factory in Ayvalik. This establishment was set up by the Greeks of Asia Minor, who were forced to abandon it to the Turks after 1923. It operated for a few more decades under Turkish ownership, and finally closed down in the early 1970s.
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.
