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Forced Partition Isn’t Simple

Sometimes the least bad option is the best one

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Philip Bowring
Apr 02, 2023
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Can ethnic cleansing be beneficial? That may seem a shocking question in the light of mass deportations as well as outright genocides in recent world history. But 2023 is the 100th anniversary of one of the largest in recent recorded history: that of Greeks and Turks. It may have some relevance to Ukraine today.

The 1914-18 war saw the Turkish Ottoman e…

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