Who's "they"? When did this happen? What are you talking about? Is it relevant to the late 1990s?

Feel free to message me on here and I'll send the file (if it lets me), I would truly like someone outside my social circle to give me fair feedback!

And you know I had to combine Turkish and Greek singers, because drama aside, Turks and Greeks aren't such different people.

But my fave artist in the list is Eleni Foureira: Albanian refugee to Greece who represented Cyprus in Eurovision. A pop goddess.

I'm proud that I can understand all those different peoples, even in Turkish!

I met Bulgarian Greeks when I was in Thessaloniki! I had an interesting conversation. And years ago I met Bulgarian Turks in Istanbul. Identity and geography are so layered. But the violence of the nation state has forced people to pick sides as much as it has forced them out of their homes

Forgive me if I already sent you this (I think maybe I did?) but this is a sample of the paper I wrote for my undergrad thesis last year. Of course the population exchange came up, even if it wasn't the focus. I'd love to get your opinion!

We should do a book recommendations exchange!!!

I imagine we have some overlap in what we've read. But I'd be happy to learn of any books you thought were really good. I already shared some with you, so please (if you have time and energy), send some my way :)

And yet Bosnia, Kosovo, Albania, European Turkey, Bulgaria, and Macedonia exist with their deeply rooted and indigenous Muslim populations 🤷‍♂️

Not to mention that Islam is the second largest religion in Europe. And that Spain and Sicily and the Balkans were Muslim regions for centuries.

Oh this one too!

All I want to do is share the nerdy books, super specific books I read 😅

I'll happily take any of your recommendations too!

Not about Kazakhstan specifically, but I can recommend these books!

Important point to make about this quote:

He says "near-genocidal" likely because the book was written in 1994. You were thinking that of course there was a genocide in Bosnia, the only internationally recognized one happened in 1995.

Looking at your profile it seems we have many overlapping interests! I got into my field by learning about Yugoslavia and I was fortunate to study in Sarajevo last Summer. Then I traveled the Western Balkans, ending in Athens. I care also about the Caucasus, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia!

It's difficult to read people on social media. Are you just being a stubborn troll, or are we having an interesting conversation sharing ideas? I think this has been the latter, and I do appreciate it. But forgive my initial defensiveness. I'm sure you understand 😄

I did write this paper last year as my undergrad thesis (I've attached a short sample here). Of ourse we can't talk about modern Greece and Turkey without talking about the population exchange and I do wonder why no one mentions the legacy of the exchange when talking about the Cyprus question.

It was literally a short post suggesting an idea I have for a research paper. It didn't shadow anything. I didn't even mention why or how the island came to be occupied. I simply mentioned that this is something that happened...a direct line from rejecting Enosis to the island being split.