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===Population exchange=== Population exchange is the transfer of two populations in opposite directions at about the same time. In theory at least, the exchange is non-forcible, but the reality of the effects of these exchanges has always been unequal, and at least one half of the so-called "exchange" has usually been forced by the stronger or richer participant. Such exchanges have taken place several times in the 20th century: * The [[Partition of India#Population exchanges|partition of India and Pakistan]] * The mass expulsion of Anatolian Greeks and Balkan Turks from Turkey and Greece, respectively, during their so-called [[Population exchange between Greece and Turkey|Greek-Turkish population exchange]]. It involved approximately 1.3 million Anatolian Christians (majority Greek) and 354,000 Balkan Muslims (majority Turkish), most of whom were forcibly made refugees and ''de jure'' [[denaturalization|denaturalized]] from their homelands. * The 1940 peaceful [[population exchange between Bulgaria and Romania]] * The Cyprus population exchange following the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974 that led to displacement of 140,000 Greeks from the north and around 60,000 Turks that have relocated from the south to the north.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://minorityrights.org/country/cyprus/#:~:text=A%20%E2%80%98temporary%E2%80%99%20population%20exchange%20agreed%20in%201975%20displaced%20some%20140%2C000%20Greek%20Cypriots%20from%20the%20north%20and%20around%2060%2C000%20Turkish%20Cypriots%20from%20the%20south%2C%20leaving%20both%20parts%20of%20the%20island%20almost%20entirely%20%E2%80%98ethnically%20cleansed%E2%80%99.%20Large%20numbers%20of%20mainland%20Turks%20settled%20in%20the%20occupied%20north. |title=Cyprus |website=Minority Rights Group International}}</ref>
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