A video on Cappadocia and the population exchange

The village next to my summerplace is a Karamanlides-village. They speak Greek ofcourse, since they live in Greece, but they originate from Cappadocia and call themselves Karamanlides.

That is one of the places I haven't been to in Turkey. Sure looks interesting.

Tell us more about the movie. What's the main message?

It's a 45min documentary.
It starts with an old lady, grandmother of a greek parliamentary, who lives in a refugee village in Thessaly (Cenrtal Greece). It's explained that this village was founded by refugees who came from Cappadocia in 1924. When these people came to Greece they didn't speak any greek, but only turkish.
They are the Karamanlides, a christian people, who speak turkish but use the greek alphabet.
The documentary crew travels with  the old woman and her grandson to Cappadocia, to thier native village of Souloutzova (sp?). There they meet some turks, who are related to them by blood (one cousin of the old woman, who was 16  years old in 1924, remained in Cappadocia and married a turk. The turkish family who welcomes them are the children and grandchildren of them.)
Then, refugees, both muslims and christian, tell their stories, of how they left their homeland, reached their new land, what they found different etc
There are also interviewed muslims, who, like the Karamanlides, spoke only greek (or 'macedonian' in one occasion) when they reached Turkey. The crew visits their club in Constantinople, a club for the greek speaking muslim refugees in Turkey. The woman that is interviewed is muslim from Crete.
An old man is also interviewed, a muslim from Yannina, who spoke greek very fluently.

Unfortunately, the interviews in turkish are dubbed with greek, so it may be difficult for a turk to hear what they say.

My grandmother came from Crete to Turkey(Muslim Helen). Some times she was speaking Greek to my aunts.

i feel a little left out..

?

As if anyone here saw the documentary... I'm pretty sure noone downloaded it yet

Originally posted by xristar i feel a little left out.. ? As if anyone here saw the documentary... I'm pretty sure noone downloaded it yet

nah im talking about having links to anadolia, since some here seem to have connections to the other side, i have none that i know off

Neither have I.


Edited by xristar - 26-Feb-2008 at 22:03

Are you sure?
To me it seems it's still working.

You may need to download the megaupload toolbar.
I did, I downloaded the film, and then uninstalled the toolbar.

If you are interested, and don't want to download the toolbar, or can't dowload the file for whatever reason, tell me. The guy who uploaded the movie has also uploaded it in another location, broken in parts though. If you want I'll try to find it.

@Kurt
What do you mean by 'ethnic greek' and 'ethnic turkish'. i'm pretty sure that none of us greeks has muslim ancestors. There is a chance though that some of us have turkish speaking christian ancestors.

Given that your signature is "Karadenizli", which according to my understanding of turkish means "someone from the Black Sea", can I assume that your 'ethnic greek' ancestors are greek speaking muslim pontians? Are you from Trebizond or so?