What happened to Muslim spouses who converted to Christianity during the 1923 Graeco-Turkish population exchange?
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Officially, If you were a Muslim in Greece, you could be exempt from compulsory deportation if you were:
- part of the ethnic Albanian community
- a resident of Thrace
The Greek government had placed no restrictions on religious conversions via marriage or baptism in the same fashion that the Turkish government did. Last minute conversions to prevent deportation were allowed and this applied to both men and women. It is unclear if there were specific rules for women
Here is an example of marriages occurring in Crete in order to prevent evacuation:
...findings reveal that some male members of Muslim families in Crete avoided the population exchange either by way of converting to Christianity or getting married to the local Greek women. Thereby, it became possible to prevent the properties of their families from confiscation. See Raif Kaplanoglu, Bursa'da Miibadele (1923-1930 Yunanistan Gogmenleri) (Bursa: Avrasya Etnografya Vakfi Yaylnlarl, 1999)
- Diplomacy and Displacement: Reconsidering the Turco-Greek Exchange of populations, 1922-1934 (Onur Yildirim, pg 249)
If your identification papers read that you where Orthodox and not Muslim, you where exempt from the population exchange.
Furthermore, marriage in the Orthodox church requires that both husband and wife must profess the Christian faith. Therefore those Muslim men and women who married into Orthodox families had to convert as a pre-requisite to their marriage.
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