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Quotes from historical documents and related Photos.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."
All Christians
Refugees. Photo 2 of 11.
| Distribution of bread by the Near East Relief at Harpout. |
Related quote:
American Women And The World War
CHAPTER XXXVII:
"The American Committee for Armenian and Syrian relief was formed in October, 1915, and in less than two years total contributions aggregated $3,400,00. The purpose of the committee has been to save the lives of the members of the Christian Races threatened with extermination through the war in Western Asia."
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