Südosteuropa Mitteilungen | 05 | 2023 Analyse Abstract The Greek-Turkish Population Exchange 1922/1923 – Conficted Memories and Global Legacies The collective memory of the “Asia Minor Catastrophe” is omnipresent in modern Greece. The term refers to the expulsion of the Greek Orthodox population from Asia Minor in September 1922 as result of the lost war against Turkey (1919 – 1922). This violent displace- ment was made subsequently legal by the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations, signed at Lausanne 30 January 1923, as part of the Lausanne Peace Treaty. In Turkey’s ofcial culture of remembrance and politics of history, the exodus of over a million Orthodox Christians from Asia Minor and the following Lausanne Conven- tion is overshadowed by the “liberation of Izmir” by Kemal Atatürk. Although the Treaty of Lausanne was not the frst interstate population exchange agreement in modern history, its impact at the global level was unprecedented. In the decades that followed, up to the end of the Cold War, the alleged “success story” of the Greek-Turkish population exchange was repeatedly invoked to justify and enforce large-scale population resettlements for the purpose of national homogenization projects. PD Dr Adamantios Theodor Skordos is research coordinator and co-head of the directorate division “Transfer and Publishing” at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) as well as private lecturer for European Studies at the University of Leipzig. Research interests: Southeastern and Southern European history in its global dimensions, history of interna- tional law, peace and confict studies, migration research, right- and left-wing populism, transitional justice. Contact: adamantios.skordos@leibniz-gwzo.de The article was completed in July 2023. Adamantios Theodor Skordos The Greek-Turkish Population Exchange 1922/1923 Conflicted Memories and Global Legacies