What is Compulsory Migration

Culture and traditions are major factors of the communities to create spatial traces in accordance with their civilizations. Most of the countries in the world are full of the cultural traces of the civilizations lived in the past. Turkey, one of those countries, is a piece of the earth that hosted different communities throughout history. As the major community of those, architectural heritage of Greeks, who settled in various cities and towns of Turkey until the population exchange and forced migration are spatial evidence of their cultural heritage. In this chapter, some of architectural heritage as the tangible cultural heritage of the Greek community in Bartın is documented, and the reflection to the space of the relationship between the Greek and Turkish people as two different communities sharing life in a peaceful environment is emphasized.