What
happened?

Why did it
happen?

A question of
concealment?

Brief
history

Timeline
of events

WHY DID IT HAPPEN?

From losing their homes in the Balkans, to having to accommodate an unprecedented number of incoming Muslim refugees, see how the radicalized leading figures of the Committee of Union and Progress (C.U.P.) decided to “secure” the Aegean littoral of the Empire by removing the local non-Christian minorities.