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Perpetrators of the Ottoman Greek Genocide
This page details some of the key architects and arch-perpetrators of the Ottoman Greek Genocide from the Committee for Union and Progress (CUP) and the Kemalist periods. After the Great War, many of these men were tried and found guilty by Turkish Court Martial in Constantinople. ... Read MoreTreaty of Sevres
The Treaty of Sèvres was the peace treaty that the Allies and the Ottoman Empire signed on the 10th of August 1920 in Sèvres, France. Articles of the treaty relevant to the Greek Genocide are presented here ... Read MoreMassacre of the Greeks in Turkey
This article, titled "Massacre of the Greeks in Turkey: Story of the Tragic Fate of Hundreds of Thousands of Christian Noncombatants in the Levant", was written by the special correspondent of The London Morning Post stationed in Constantinople on 5 December 1918... Read MorePatriarchate Figures on the Deportation of Ottoman Greeks
Figures published in 1919 by the Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople record the deportation of 774,235 Ottoman Greeks into the Turkish Interior. The data does not reflect the total number of Greeks deported since the records end in 1918 and therefore does not include deportations conducted during the period 1919-1923... Read MoreOttoman Greek Deputies
In 1908 there were 26 Ottoman Greek deputies serving in the Ottoman Parliament but by 1912-1914 their number had been reduced to 18. On 4 November 1918 when the Ottoman Parliament convened in Istanbul, three Ottoman Greek deputies put forward a motion addressing the massacres and deportations of Greeks and Armenians ... Read MoreMustafa Kemal Ataturk: 1926 Los Angeles Examiner Quote
In an interview with Swiss journalist Emile Hilderbrand, published on Sunday August 1st 1926 in the Los Angeles Examiner under the title "Kemal Promises More Hangings of Political Antagonists in Turkey", Mustafa Kemal states: “These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and m assacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.”... Read MoreArmenian Genocide
The Armenian Genocide (Greek: η Γενοκτονία των Αρμενίων, Turkish: Ermeni Soykırımı) is a term which refers to the systematic state-organized policy of physical annihilation perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, the predecessor of modern Turkey, against its indigenous Armenian civilian population between 1915 and 1923... Read More1,500,000 Greek Christians Massacred or Deported by Turks
Dr. William C. King's article titled "1,500,000 Greek Christians Massacred or Deported by Turks" and published in King's Complete History of the World War (1922) covers the genocidal experiences of Ottoman Greeks up to 1918.Near East Relief on Ottoman Greeks
This article is the official account of the Near East Relief organization on the Greeks and their genocide: "The story of Armenian suffering in Turkey is paralleled, with certain modifications by the experiences of the Greeks, of whom there were 5,000,000 under Turkish domination at the beginning of the war."... Read More
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
Henry Morgenthau (1856-1946) was United States ambassador to the Ottoman Empire between 1913 and 1916. He witnessed the Ottoman entry into World War I and the genocide of the Empire’s Armenian, Assyrian and Greek population. "Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story" was published in 1918 and deals largely with the plight of Armenians in the Empire. However, sections of the books relevant to the Greek Genocide and the Greeks in the Ottoman Empire are presented here... Read MoreDr. M. Ward & Major F. Yowell
Mark H. Ward graduated as a surgeon in 1911 and was sent to Turkey as a medical missionary for the Near East Relief in 1915. From 1918 he was stationed at the Kharput (Harpoot) unit as the Medical Director and temporarily as acting Director where he organized relief work, including the opening of orphanages, schools and hospitals to provide much needed care to Turkey's diminishing Christian element. In the area of Kharput, Ward collected 5000 orphans and assisted thousands of refugees... Read MoreNikos Mastoropoulos
Nikos Mastoropoulos, a painter of Pontic Greek descent, was born and raised in Moscow but died at the age of 55 in 2003. Mastoropoulos was greatly influenced by the tragic plight of the Greeks of Anatolia and Thrace and produced a selection of paintings on the Greek Genocide which magnificently capture the despair and torment experienced by the victims of the Genocide... Read More
Reviews:
Review of Rouben Adalian’s Paper on Comparative Treatment of Ottoman Armenians and Greeks
Rouben Paul Adalian’s eighteen-page paper, “Comparative policy and differential practice in the treatment of minorities in wartime: the United States archival evidence on the Armenians and Greeks in the Ottoman Empire”, is a definitive example of a text which serves to deny the 1914-1923 Greek Genocide and elevate the suffering of Ottoman Armenians through establishing a hierarchy of victims in which only the fate of Ottoman Armenians can be considered of genocidal quality. ... Read MoreA Critical Review of Konstantinos Photiades’ Publications on the Greek Genocide
This article provides a brief review of the more important contributions to Greek Genocide scholarship by Dr. Konstantinos Photiades (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Φωτιάδης), an academic of Modern Greek History at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece... Read MoreReview of “The Great Game of Genocide” by Donald Bloxham as it pertains to Ottoman Greeks
The author, Donald Bloxham, is currently a professor of Modern History at the University of Edinburgh. His book, The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians, has received wide acclaim including the 2007 Raphael Lemkin biennial award and numerous glowing reviews. As the title suggests, Bloxham deals principally with the fate of the Ottoman Armenians. This review, however, will focus on the accuracy of the coverage given to the fate of Ottoman Greeks and not on the merits and failures of the book as a whole. ... Read More
Recent News:
Mass Grave Discovered in Samsun, Turkey (March 2008)
In March 2008 a mass grave of Greeks was discovered in Yazılar, a village in Samsun’s Tekkeköy district, northern Anatolia. The discovery was made during the reconstruction of a primary school wall which had recently collapsed as a result of a land slide. It was then that residents of Yazılar discovered human remains; at first a number of jaw, spine, arm and leg bones but soon after some five or six human skeletons were discovered in one grave alone arousing suspicion that it was in fact a mass burial site. ... Read MoreIAGS Affirms Greek Genocide (December 2007)
In 2007 the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), an organization of the world’s foremost experts on genocide, passed a resolution affirming the 1914-1923 massacres and death marches of Ottoman Greeks and Assyrians was "genocide". ... Read MoreIAGS Press Release (December 2007)
The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) has voted overwhelmingly to recognize the genocides inflicted on Assyrian and Greek populations of the Ottoman Empire between 1914 and 1923. ... Read More