Mert Kaya: Greeks must know someone is working for Islamized Greeks in Turkey
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The young Turkey born researcher Mert Kaya searched for his roots and discovered that he is the great-grandson of a Pontian Greek who was left behind in the population exchange in 1923-24 and was Islamised.
His intensive study has just been published in Greek and he states that “Memory is a place for battles”.
Kaya was born and raised in Smyrna (Σμύρνα, Turkish: İzmir).
He studied Sociology at the Middle East University of Technology with a postgraduate degree in Cultural Studies and Media from Hacettepe University. His dissertation was a memorial research on the Islamisation of the Greeks of the East in 1919-1925.