Refugees in Republican Turkey according to official statistics (1923-1992)

These data have been compiled from the referenced sources for the PhD thesis research on ‘Turkish Migration Policy’. It was prepared in order to analyse the migration flows and population data that emerged as a result of the migration policies of the Republican period.
Notes:
- No official statistics on Greek-Turkish exchanges between 1923 and 1925 were published.
- The Turkish State Institute of Statistics stopped publishing statistics on migrants in 1961. Figures after this date can be obtained from reports and statistics published by the relevant state institutions.
- In 1939, after the amendment of the Settlement Law No. 2510, migrants and refugees were given the freedom to choose their place of residence. However, official statistics on migrants whose resettlement was subsidised by the state were published in detail after 1945 until 1961.