Greek Jews sent to Turkey

During the Greco-Turkish Population exchanges, the Greeks considered sending their Jewish population to Turkey along with their muslim population.

There were about 62,000 Jews in Salonika in 1913. There were around 74,000 Jews in Greece in 1940.

One significant impact would be that Greek Colonel Mordechai Frizis would end up deported. The Greco-Italian War would play out a bit differently without him.
 
I doubt Turkey would accept them as they are non-Muslims

Romaniote and Sephardic Jews were loyal Ottoman Citizens who had already pledged to make Turkish the official language of Jews in the Ottoman Empire by this point. I don't see why there'd be an issue with Jews living in an officially secular Turkey.
 
Deporting the Jews of Salonika would be a huge deal it had been a center of Eastern Mediterranean Judaism for a very long time.
 
It would be very fascinating if colonel Frizis ended up as a Turkish military officer or (alternatively) made Aliyah to Palestine and became part of the founding of the state of Israel.


If Turkey doesn't accept these people, I imagine a great many would head to Palestine. OTL there were 94,000 Jews in 1914 and 84,000 in 1922. It'd be almost double if the Salonika Jews go to Palestine.

Turkey had 80,000 Jews OTL in 1948 whereas here it would have ~154,000 if they all go to Turkey.
 
Romaniote and Sephardic Jews were loyal Ottoman Citizens who had already pledged to make Turkish the official language of Jews in the Ottoman Empire by this point.
So were many Turkish-speaking Christians didn't stop from being considered non-Turks and sent to Greece.
 
Greece was a Christian state. The Ottomans and Turks had no particular beef with jews.
The Jews are not considered to be Turks so why should Turkey bother to accept them when they have hundreds of thousands of Turks from Greece. They need to settle and find work for .
 
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