Özet:

The Ottoman Empire’s loss of power from the 17th century transformed into disintegration in the 19th century, particularly with the effect of the movement of nationalism emerging from the French Revolution. The separatist nationalist movement primarily became widespread among non-Muslim groups like Serbs, Greeks, Bulgarians, and Romanians; and subsequently Muslim groups such as Arabs and Albanians within the Ottoman society. As these movements became progressively powerful, this situation strongly hit the Ottoman understanding of unity and solidarity, namely Pax Ottomana. In the first years of the World War I, activities against the government such as espionage on favor of Allied powers or partisan activities which could be referred to the sixth column began to blow up among the Anatolian Greeks, affected by the separatist Balkan nationalism emerging in former periods. Besides; the soldiers, recruited from minority sections of the society, largely attempted to desert. It was a fact that the minority soldiers who could desert outside the country joined the Allied troops and those who could desert inside the country formed partisans. After this process began to harm both the local Muslim people and the Ottoman troops in the front; the Greek groups, which are detected by the government to carry out harmful activities were compulsorily relocated. The objective of the article is to provide an answer to the questions: the Greek relocation executed by a government decision was based on which factors, what difficulties were faced during the shipment and relocation stages and what their consequences were

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