Bruce Clark's Twice a Stranger is a history of the 1923 Greek-Turkish population exchange — the largest forced migration in modern history before World War II — told through the stories of those who lived it on both sides. The exchange affected over a million Greeks and half a million Turks, uprooting communities that had lived in their respective countries for generations.
For visitors to İzmir, the book provides essential context: why the city feels simultaneously Turkish and subtly Levantine, why certain neighbourhoods have the character of transplanted communities, and why both Greeks and Turks carry the memory of the exchange as a persistent wound. Clark is scrupulously fair to both sides.