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: FAQ, 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: FAQ, 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 |
Massacre 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 More |
| Armenian 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 More |
A 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 More |
| 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 More |
Mustafa Kemal: 1926 Los Angeles Examiner In an interview with Swiss journalist Emile Hilderbrand, published on Sunday 1 August 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 massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.” ... 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 10 August 1920 in Sèvres, France. Articles of the treaty relevant to the Greek Genocide are presented here ... Read More |
| Mass Grave Discovered in Samsun, Turkey 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 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 |
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 |
| Patriarchate 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. According to the data, by 1918 218,767 Greeks of Thrace and 555,468 Greeks of Asia Minor (including 257,019 from the Pontus region) had been deported. The vast majority of these died.... Read More |
Ottoman 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 More |