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1. Your readers may wish to know that the Nansen article that I wrote in 2015 for the “Armenian Weekly” was an abbreviated version of the encyclopedia entry from the “The Armenian Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide” and was reprinted with the permission of the publisher ABC-CLIO.

2. The “Nansen had also become involved in the somewhat controversial, but urgent, Greek-Turkish compulsory exchange of populations following the Greco-Turkish war of 1922. In this exchange, approximately 1,250,000 Greeks were sent from Turkey, while about 500,000 Turks were sent from Greece” is inexplicably false. There was no “exchange” – there was no mutuality, and this false “exchange” label simply disguises genocide by Turkey as well as pandering to Turkish propaganda that seeks to imply it was all done as a result of some sort of international agreement (the Treaty of Lausanne) and thus at the behest of the allied Powers. In reality, Turkey got rid of all its Greek population entirely unilaterally, and then, after the event, the Greeks were permitted (permitted by Turkey), in return for Greece not taking the matter of the expelled Greeks up with the international community, to expel most of its Muslim population.

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