[THE RED CRESCENT / THE EXCHANGE OF POPULATIONS] Hilâl-i Ahmer mecmuasi = Bulletin mensuel du Croissant - Rouge Turc : Her ayin onbesinde nesrolunur. Year 3. Nos. 29-40. (12 issues of 109). [i.e., The journal of the Red Crescent]

Complete title: [THE RED CRESCENT / THE EXCHANGE OF POPULATIONS] هلال احمر مجموعسى / Hilâl-i Ahmer mecmuasi = Bulletin mensuel du Croissant - Rouge Turc : Her ayin onbesinde nesrolunur. Year 3. Nos. 29-40. (12 issues of 109). [i.e., The journal of the Red Crescent].

HILÂL-I AHMER CEMIYETI.

Türkiye Hilâl-i Ahmer Cemiyeti Merkez-i Umûmîsi / Vakit Matbaasi, Istanbul, 15 January – 15 December 1924.

In contemporary quarter brown calf. Five raised bands to the spine, two labels on the spine. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters), French, and English. 129-440 pp., and 1-168 pp., b/w ills. The magazine was originally issued in 24 pages, though some issues expanded to 48 or even 78 pages. Its English and French sections provided brief summaries of the news items covered in the Turkish section. Fading on the lower boards. Covers are missing. Overall, a good collection in one volume.

A rare volume comprising all 12 issues published in 1924 of the journal, issued by the Turkish Red Crescent Society (Kızılay), founded in 1868. Published in a total of 109 issues between 1918 and 1928, this periodical was the Society's first official publication. The issues from 1924 devote extensive coverage to the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange. The journal documents the Society's pioneering role in establishing caregiver and nursing courses, promoting volunteer nursing, and founding Turkey's first nursing school. During periods of mass migration, it also records the Red Crescent's efforts to assist those affected by epidemic diseases and to meet essential humanitarian needs, including shelter, food, drinking water, and clothing.

The journal extensively documents the Society's activities, including its educational programs, its work in the field of healthcare (nursing, hospitals, and caregiving), and its humanitarian assistance to prisoners of war, refugees, earthquake victims, the wounded, and the needy. It reports in detail on the Society's relief efforts during natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, and fires, as well as on donations received from within Turkey and abroad. The publication also features news on the activities of Red Cross societies in Christian countries, including the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany.

During the period covered by the issues offered here, the journal was edited by Arif Süleyman Bey and Ali Macid. Ali Macid also contributed a substantial report on the exchange of prisoners of war between the Ottoman Empire and Britain in İnebolu, which is included in the journal.

The Population Exchange involved at least 1.6 million people (approx. 1,221,489 Greek Orthodox Christians from Asia Minor, Eastern Thrace, the Pontic Alps, and the Caucasus, and 355,000-400,000 Muslims from Greece). Most were forcibly displaced, rendered refugees, and legally erased from their homelands. This exchange was formalized by the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations, signed by the governments of Greece and Turkey on 30 January 1923 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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