This thesis traces the roots of the Chanak Crisis, which brought Britain and Turkey on the brink of war in September 1922. After the analysis of the British Near Eastern policy throughout the 19th century up until the Chanak Crisis, the author concludes that the confrontation at Chanak was basically a continuation of the Eastern Question, which had revolved around the Anglo-Russian rivalry over the control of the Turkish Straits. While Britain pursued the closure of the Straits until the World War I to prevent Russia accessing to the Mediterranean, the British post-war strategy focused on ensuring the “freedom of the Straits.” The Turkish advance toward Chanak after the victory over Greeks, however, posed a great threat to British plans. In the face of hints of the cooperation between the Turkish Nationalists and Russia, the British government, therefore, took a decision to hold Chanak at the risk of military confrontation.

This thesis has explored the failure of Greece to achieve its one-hundred-year irrendentist struggle as a result of the nationalist movement in Turkey, and discusses Turkish efforts to reverse the dictate (Treaty of Sevres) of the Great Powers after the First World War.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 1978. / Translation of: In the shadow of the Holy Mountain. Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-196).

This thesis explores the long-run relationship between forced migration and political outcomes in the host society. In the aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), over 1.2 million Greek-Orthodox individuals were forcibly relocated from the lands of Anatolia to Greece. Their resettlement, facilitated by international assistance, meant an ethnic division between the locals and newcomers, with the latter group becoming the pivotal political actor. This study examines the legacy of the resettlement of the Greek-Orthodox refugees on the politics of Greece's debt crisis era (2010-2015), a period when Greece's alignment with Europe was in question. Using a newly compiled dataset on voting patterns in the 2015 Greek bailout referendum and four legislative elections, alongside municipality-level characteristics, the analysis finds no significant relationship between the local share of resettled refugees and support for the "NO" vote or Eurosceptic parties. These findings contribute to the existing literature by offering a perspective on the long-run political impacts of a historic episode of forced displacement within the context of Greece's strategic dilemma between Europeanisation and sovereigntism.