The Ghost Village of Kayakoy, Mugla, Turkey.
Ruins of the village of Kayakoy, inhabited by Greeks in the early 1920s, the population was moved to mainland Greece for a population exchange of Turks from Salonika. The Turks returning to Turkey were small in number and engaged for the most part in agriculture. The urban living conditions came without land; were of little use to the agricultural Turks
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Location: Kayakoy, Mugla, Turkey.
Photo credit: © Dario Earl / Alamy / Afripics
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