During the years 1914-1923, whilst the attention of the international community focused on the turmoil and aftermath of the First World War, the indigenous Greek minority of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey's predecessor, was subjected to a centrally-organized, premeditated and systematic policy of annihilation. This genocide, orchestrated to ensure an irreversible end to the collective existence of Turkey's Greek population, was perpetrated by two consecutive governments; the Committee for Union and Progress, better known as the Young Turks, and the nationalist Kemalists led by Mustafa Kemal "Atatürk". A lethal combination of labor brigades, internal deportations and massacres conducted throughout Ottoman Turkey resulted in the death of more than a million Greeks.
The International Association of Genocide Scholars, an organization of the world’s foremost experts on genocide, have affirmed the Greek Genocide.
Selected Pages: Books, Press Reports, Fact Sheet, Archival Documents
The International Association of Genocide Scholars, an organization of the world’s foremost experts on genocide, have affirmed the Greek Genocide.
Selected Pages: Books, Press Reports, Fact Sheet, Archival Documents
| 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 |
1,500,000 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. ... Read More |
IAGS Affirms Greek Genocide 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 More |
IAGS Press Release Read the press release as issued by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) on the resolution recognizing the Greek Genocide. ... 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 ... Read More |
Treaty 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 More |
| Dr. 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 More |
Pontian Painter Mastoropoulos Nikos Mastoropoulos, a painter of Pontian Greek descent, was born and raised in Moscow but sadly died prematurely at the age of 55. The Greek Diaspora of Russia which consists almost entirely of Pontian Greeks is now estimated at 500,000 as a result of the refugee influx at the start of the 20th century due to the genocidal measures the Greeks of Ottoman Turkey were subjected to. Mastoropoulos was greatly influenced by the tragic plight of the Greeks of Anatolia and produced a selection of paintings on the Greek Genocide ... Read More |
| Elias Venezis Renowned Greek writer Elias Venezis was born Elias Mellos, the son of Michail Mellos and Vasiliki Bibela, in 1904 in Kidonies (Ayvalik) in Asia Minor. During the Greek Genocide, his family fled to Lesbos to avoid persecution but returned to Kidonies in 1919 after the Greek army landed in Smyrna. In September 1922, at the age of 18, Venezis was arrested and enslaved in a labour battalion in the interior of Asia Minor. From the 3000 conscripted into his labour brigade only 23 survived. He later described his plight and that of his compatriots in his esteemed work "Number 31328". In this "book of slavery", as Venezis himself has subtitled it, he describes the 14 months of his life he spent in the Turkish concentration camps ... Read More |
Mustafa Kemal: 1926 Los Angeles Examiner |