Many Ottoman Greeks were economically ruined by the boycott but they were reluctant to leave.[4] Some left temporarily and returned when the boycott died down.[3] In the aftermath of the Balkan Wars the boycott continued to intensify and was directly organized by the ruling party, Committee of Union and Progress (CUP).[5] Historian Matthias Bjørnlund sees the Greek deportation as "an extension of the policy of economic and cultural boycott".[6]