Located just 8 km south of Fethiye is the somber village of Kayakoy which had once proudly housed Greeks and Turks together. The Muslims who had come over here as the result of the Treaty of Lausanne, could not cope with the infertility of the region and abandoned Kayakoy for other regions in Turkey. With its museum and 500 ruins of the deserted houses, the site is reminiscent of the heartbreak and trauma which resulted from this mass migration. Known as a “ghost town,” one will get a very surreal feeling here. It is built on the side of a hill and it looks like the whole population just upped and walked away, which in reality is what happened. Kayakoy was a Greek village and when there was trouble between Greece and Turkey, everyone moved back to the Greek territory. The site is well worth a visit.
Kayaköy village is rich in history and stories. Both Anatolian Muslims and Greek Orthodox Christians lived here in harmony since its origins in the 14th Century. After the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922, Turkey’s Christian and Greece’s Muslims were expelled from their homes in a population exchange between Greece and Turkey. It is a little bizarre but there are a plethora of derelict houses that tell about the place's history.
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