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Quotes from historical documents and related Photos.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."
Hellenic Heritage
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| Constantinople. The Byzantine Monastery of Pantocrator. |
Related quote:
Handbook of WAR Facts and Peace Problems
CHAPTER VIII:
"There are perhaps 2 1/2 million Greeks, mostly in Constantinople and European Turkey and along the sea-coast of Asia Minor, where in ancient times there were splendid Greek cities rivalling Athens and Sparta. The Armenians before the massacres formed the bulk of the population to the north, in what the Turks call Kurdistan, but we call Turkish Armenia. Mingled with them, in southern Armenia, are the Kurds and the Turks. In all sections of the empire there were about 2,000,000 Armenians. Of the Kurds there are close on two millions. Syria, including Palestine, has about 3,000,000, of whom practically none are Turks and the bulk of Semitic race, either Arabs, Syrians, or Jews."
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