A different one monument in memory of “those who lived as strangers in a strange place”, the refugees from one side of the Aegean to the other, as a result of the implementation of the 100-year-old Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, one can see, when visiting Lesbos opposite Lesbos, Asia Minor Kyutsukuyu.

A family cast in metal – with an androgynous man and two children – land on the shore and send a message of solidarity 100 years after the implementation of the Treaty of Lausanne.

The monument was erected in Kyutsukuyu about 10 years ago and on its base he writes in Greek, Turkish and English “IN THE MEMORY OF ALL EXCHANGERS AND FROM BOTH SIDES”.

The shelter was set up on the initiative of the municipality there, given that a large part of its inhabitants are exchangeable on the basis of the Treaty of Lausanne, Turks of Crete.

Of particular importance, however, is the fact of the existence of a monument dedicated to one fact which until recently was literally “secret» from the Turkish people.

At no time in the neighboring country is it reported that an entire people was excommunicated from Turkey in implementation of the Treaty of Lausanne and those that preceded it from August 1922.

And this “FROM BOTH SIDES» is a indirect acceptance on the other hand, the only one to date, of the sufferings of the Asia Minor disaster which followed the Greek Campaign in Asia Minor in the period 1919 – 1922.

In addition to the Turkish residents, many residents of Lesvos also attended the unveiling of the monument. Among them was the then Member of Parliament of Lesbos of the New Democracy, Pavlos Vogiatzis, who, according to publications of the time, said that this original monument “reminds us of our roots and the mistakes we should not repeat”.