The Ghost Village Of Kayakoy – Turkey

The ghost village of Kayakoy, built in stones, set in the slopes of a hill, 8 Km south of The history of the village goes back to 14th century when a population of Greek Orthodox settled there. At the end of the Ottoman Empire and following the Greco-Turkish conflict, the spirit of the village slowly vanished, after all 6000 citizens, Christian and Greek Muslims were expelled in a population exchange between Turkey and Greek at the end of the war in 1922.