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Quotes from historical documents and related Photos.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."
All Christians
Deportations. Photo 8 of 10.
| Tents of Christians being deported. |
Related quote:
Handbook of WAR Facts and Peace Problems
CHAPTER III:
"After the so-called Young Turks, who dethroned Abdul Hamid, had imagined a theory of Pan-Turkism, imitated from the Pan-Germanism of the Kaiser, they decided to extirpate or enslave or deport all the Christian races of Turkey. The Turks decided to begin with the Armenians. The plan was elaborated by the Turkish Cabinet under Talaat, Enver, and Djavid. It is known to have had the approval of Germany."
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