The Hellenic Genocide
Quotes from historical documents and related Photos.

Book:

Author:
Publication:
The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman
Empire 1915-16

Viscount Bryce
1916

CHAPTER IV:

"Most of the Christians fled when the army withdrew in January, but some remained behind and these sought the protection of their Moslem neighbours. But a few days before the return of the Russian army to Salmas, when the Turks saw that they would be compelled to flee, they secured the names of all Christians by a ruse, pretending that all who registered would be protected. Then they gathered all the men into one place and carried them out in companies of about twenty-five, each to be shot down in cold blood. Others were tied with their heads sticking through the rungs of a ladder and decapitated, others hacked to pieces or mutilated before death. In this way practically every Christian man remaining in Salmas was massacred. You can imagine the fate of girls and women."


CHAPTER VI:

"He had taken particular pleasure in pointing out to us all the horrors that we encountered, and he said to young Hassan: "First we kill the Armenians, then the Greeks, then the Kurds." He would certainly have been delighted to add: "And then the foreigners! Our Greek driver was the victim of a still more ghastly joke: Look, down there in the ditch ; there are Greeks there too! ""


CHAPTER VIII:

"A number of bodies of women and children have lately been thrown up by the sea upon the sandy beach below the walls of the Italian Monastery here in Trebizond [city of Pontos] and were buried by Greek women in the sand where they were found."


CHAPTER IX:

"I believe it to be true that the entire Armenian population from Erzeroum to (and including) Gemerek, near Kaisaria, and from Samsoun to (and including) Harpout has been deported. There is also a movement in the central field which had not become general yet when I left, but will doubtless become so later. More than 100,000 Greeks from the Marmora and Mediterranean coast have been deported."


CHAPTER XI:

"The Government's purpose was to get rid of Christianity in the Ottoman Empire by getting rid of the Christians. The mayor of our city told our American Consular Agent(114) that the Government intended first to get rid of the Armenians, and then of the Greeks, and finally of the foreigners, and so to have Turkey for the Turks. Enver Pasha said the same thing to our Ambassador."


CHAPTER XV:

"When the exiles reached Konia, they had eaten nothing, according to our news, for three days. The Greeks and Armenians at once collected money and food for their relief, but the Vali of Konia would not allow anything of any kind to be given to the exiles. They therefore remained another three days without food, at the end of which time the Vali removed his prohibition and allowed food to be served out to them under the supervision of the zaptiehs."


SUMMARY IV:

"The Macedonians---Greek, Bulgar and Serb---who had been the Armenians' principal fellow-victims in the days of oppression, paid the Constitution lip-homage and secretly prepared to strike. They were irreconcilable irredentists, and saw in the reform of the Empire simply an obstacle to their secession from it. They took counsel with their kinsmen in the independent national States of Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece, and, four years later, the Balkan League attacked Turkey and tore away her Macedonian provinces by force."



Book:
Author:
Publication:
With Our Soldiers In France
Sherwood Eddy
1917

APPENDIX II:

"Events in Armenia, published in the Sonnenaufgang, and in the Allgemeine Missions-Zeitschrift, November, 1915:"Twelve hundred of the most prominent Armenians and other Christians were arrested; 674 of them were embarked on thirteen Tigris barges, the prisoners were stripped of all their money and then of their clothes; after that they were thrown into the river. Five or six priests were stripped naked one day, smeared with tar, and dragged through the streets. For a whole month corpses were observed floating down the River Euphrates, hideously mutilated. The prisons at Biredjik are filled regularly every day and emptied every nigh--into the Euphrates.""



Book:
Author:
Publication:
Face To Face With Kaiserism
James W. Gerard
1918

CHAPTER VII:

"The Turks are beginning to take Greeks from the Coast cities into the interior of Asia Minor and are oppressing the Syrian Arabian cities, such as Beirut, where thousands are dying of starvation."



The Hellenic Genocide
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Constantinople, in a map of 1923.
Constantinople, in a map of 1923.




Turkish infantry, drilled by Germans.
Turkish infantry, drilled by Germans.




Turkish soldiers posing with heads of victims.
Turkish soldiers posing with heads of victims.




Orphans. Survivors of the Genocides.
Orphans. Survivors of the Genocides.




Turkish statement to the Americans.
Turkish statement to the Americans.




The US Consulate in Smyrna. Burnt.
The US Consulate in Smyrna. Burnt.




A destroyed building in Smyrna.
A destroyed building in Smyrna.




Imvros. Devastation and abandonment.
Imvros. Devastation and abandonment.




Church of Saints Constantine and Helene.
Church of Saints Constantine and Helene.




Hellenic property destroyed at Pera.
Hellenic property destroyed at Pera.