The Hellenic Genocide
Quotes from historical documents and related Photos.
The Hellenic Genocide was the systematic torture, massacre and ethnic cleansing of several millions Hellenes (Greeks) perpetrated by the Turks in Asia Minor, Constantinople (called Istanbul by the Turks), Eastern Thrace, Imvros, Tenedos, Macedonia, Cappadocia and Pontos between the beginning of the 1890's and the end of the 1950's.
Millions of children, men and women were tortured and massacred or expelled from their homes only for being Hellenes. In the same places and often at the same time, were also massacred millions of Armenians and Assyrians.
The only "sin" of those millions of persons was to live where their ancestors had lived for thousands of years before the Turkish invasions. The Turkish rulers carried out with unimaginable cruelty their plan to create a "Turkey for the Turks."
Armenians and Assyrians
Photo 6 of 14.
| Armenian woman victim of forced starvation asks a pieace of bread. |
Related quote:
Handbook of WAR Facts and Peace Problems
CHAPTER III:
"Practically all the Greek centres of life in Thrace, along the Sea of Marmora, and the coast of Asia Minor have been destroyed. Our ambassador to Turkey, Mr. Morgenthau, says: "Admiral Usedom, one of the big German naval experts of Turkey, told me that the Germans had suggested this deportation to the Turks." The Greeks, like the Armenians, were in Germany's way. The leading Pan-German writers upheld the Turks to the limit of their worst atrocities."
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