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Quotes from historical documents and related Photos.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 Patriarchal Academy. |
Related quote:
Handbook of WAR Facts and Peace Problems
CHAPTER VIII:
"The Turks themselves live mostly in the interior of Asia Minor and in Constantinople. They, the Arabs, Kurds, and the majority of Syrians, are Mohammedans. The Armenians, Greeks, and some Syrians are Christians. The Turks do not engage in any business or other productive occupations and do practically nothing but mis-administer and live off the industrious part of the populations (Armenians, Greeks, Jews, Syrians). The so-called constitution of 1876 is a dead-letter: the government is a tyranny by a small clique of Turks, who have tried since 1909 to establish a Pan-Turkish or Pan-Turanian despotism over all the elements, even the Arabs. The Allies have pledged themselves to the expulsion of the Turks and to the freeing of all the races they have oppressed."
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