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Quotes from historical documents and related Photos.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."
Asia Minor and Thrace
Victims and Destruction. Photo 7 of 11.
| The ruins of the Aidinion Hospital.
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Related quote:
Handbook of WAR Facts and Peace Problems
CHAPTER VII:
"This year saw the terrible Armenian and Hellenic massacres and deportations in Turkey and the similar massacres in Serbia by Austrians and Bulgars, with complete destruction of the country. It also saw the campaign of extermination by the Germans in Poland by famine and deportation. The dead among the civilian populations during this year surpassed the number of those killed in battle on all the fronts, and is estimated at over three million, including almost all the children and a large part of the women."
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