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Quotes from historical documents and related Photos.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."



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Map 13 of 17.


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1916: Sis, Alexandretta, Antakia, Marash, Aleppo, Ourfa, Diyarbekir, Der-el-Zor and Mardin.

1916: Sis, Alexandretta, Antakia, Marash, Aleppo, Ourfa, Diyarbekir, Der-el-Zor and Mardin.



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The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-16
Map of Districts affected


The Hellenic Genocide
Quotes from historical documents and related Photos.

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