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Quotes from historical documents and related Photos.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."
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| Turkish infantry, drilled by German instructors. |
Related quote:
Handbook of WAR Facts and Peace Problems
CHAPTER III:
"... It is imperative for political reasons that the Greeks dwelling along the coast of Asia Minor be compelled to evacuate their villages in order to settle in the vilayets of Erzerum and Chaldea. If they refuse to emigrate to the places assigned to them, you should issue verbal instructions to our Mussulman brothers so that there may by all kinds of excesses, compel the Greeks to, leave their homes of their own accord.
Do not in this case forget to obtain from these emigrants declarations to the effect that they are leaving their hearths and homes of their own free will so that no political complications may later result there from.--- (Signed by The Chief of the Turkish Bureau of Correspondence, Ali Riza; from Le Temps, Paris, July 20, 1916; and "Persecution of the Greeks in Turkey," by Brown and Ion, Amer. Hellen. Soc. Publ. No. 3, 1918.)"
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