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Quotes from historical documents and related Photos.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."
Smyrna
Before the fire. Photo 11 of 31.
| View of a crowded street, with Hellenic flags on the foreground. |
The photo above is a reduced copy of the original published at
MEMORIES FROM SMYRNI 1918 - 1922
by Konstantinos Chatzikyriakos.
Related quote:
Handbook of WAR Facts and Peace Problems
CHAPTER III:
"The instructions to the Governor of Smyrna (on the next page) give the characteristic Germanic excuse for beginning the atrocities, namely they accuse the Greeks of planning a revolutionary movement, just as they had accused the Armenians. This was an even more transparent lie, because the Greeks had not as yet been obliged to arm themselves for defense against periodical Turkish massacres as had the Armenians. A similar Germanic method of first getting rid of the able-bodied men was practised as in the case of the Armenians. They were drafted into the Turkish army and then, when under military control, were martyrized. The official reports issued in May 1918 by the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs show how several hundred thousand Greeks had been killed, the girls forced into Mohammedan harems, the children torn from their families to be brought up as Mohammedans. A thoroughly German touch was to force the inhabitants under fear of death to sign statements that they were leaving their homes of their own free will."
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