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Quotes from historical documents and related Photos.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."
Documents and Posters
Photo 6 of 11.
"You Won't Let Me Starve, Will You?"
I am little Shushan, from Armenia
My home has been destroyed
Father was taken away
Mother starved because she gave me
all the food
I am so hungry and cold
Thousands of other children are hungry and cold, too
The Opportunity for Our Sunday School
American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief
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Related quote:
Handbook of WAR Facts and Peace Problems
CHAPTER XI:
"Civilian Casualties (Rough Estimate).
(Massacred, Died of Hunger, Exposure and Disease)
Armenians in Turkey 1,100,000
Greeks in Turkey 900,000"
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