Mubadele Museum

Turkey's third, while the Anatolian side of the first exchange Tuzla Social Solidarity Association museum entirely a result of their efforts was opened in Tuzla on November 3, 2013.

Dear friends, you know that most of the population in the Post Office and Mosque neighborhoods, which form the core of Tuzla, are exchange.

With the protocol signed between the Greek government and the Turkish Grand National Assembly on January 30, 1923, in Lausanne, Switzerland, the mandatory exchange (swap) of Greek nationals from the Greek religion of Greek Orthodox settled in the Turkish territory, from the Muslim religion of the Greek territory, will be initiated on May 1, 1923. The text was accepted by two countries.

After this signed protocol about 750,000 Muslim Turks, ship and train on the territory of Greece from the country he emigrated to the newly established Republic of Turkey on a mandatory basis.

After this protocol, the fathers, mothers, grandparents and grandmothers of the immigrant children, who are still the majority in the center of Tuzla, came to Tuzla by ships. We now have a museum where children and grandchildren from Kılkış, Kavala and Drama, as well as their grandchildren (Turkish families who lived with the rum in Tuzla before the exchange), where we can breathe our history, culture and live the history of exchange and Tuzla.

Tuzla dating from emigrant Greeks former owners of 111-year-old house in our museum salts as well as Thessaloniki, Kavala, Drama, hundreds of years old dresses brought to Turkey using our ancestors and family in the territory, such as Bulgaria, objects, photographs, documents, and with documents together before the exchange Until 1922, it is possible to see the belongings and photos from the Greeks who lived in Tuzla.

We invite all Tuzla people, history lovers to visit our museum and donate objects. The names of families that use and donate all the objects on display are written and displayed.