Extermination of Greeks in Turkey

The Times, August 23rd 1917, page 5.

EXTERMINATION OF GREEKS IN TURKEY.
A GERMAN PLOT DISCLOSED.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
ATHENS, AUG 20.
M. Politis, Minister for Foreign Affairs, to-day laid before the Chamber four new documents proving conclusively that the persecutions of which the Greeks at Aivali and in other parts of Asia Minor were the victims were carried out in accordance with a plan for the extermination of the Greek race in Turkey devised by the German General Staff, which aided and supervised its execution. The last report on the subject, which is dated April 30, 1917, and came from the Greek Minister at Constantinople, says that the Turkish Ministers themselves, as well as the German Minister, had admitted to him that the extermination of Hellenism was the outcome of a resolve of the German General Staff.
These disclosures, following the publication of the White Book showing that tens of thousands of Greeks in Eastern Macedonia have died of hunger, have exhibited in the character of executioners of the Hellenic race those who conducted the late political regime. Their condemnation is complete. Their only excuse was that they feared to make war on Germany, as Baron Wangenheim, the German Minister, had declared that in that event Hellenism in Turkey would be exterminated.