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. The Ottoman Greek deputies were Aydın Deputy Emanuel Emanuelides, İzmir Deputy Vangel and Çatalca Deputy Tokinides. The eight-point motion included the following crimes as perpetrated by the Committee of Union and Progress:

• Two hundred and fifty thousand people [250,000] of the Greek minority, which has been a true agent of civilization in this country for at least forty centuries, were thrown out of the Ottoman territory and their properties were confiscated.
• Before the war five hundred and fifty thousand [550,000] Greek people were also massacred and exterminated along the coasts and inland districts of the Black Sea, Dardanelles, Marmara and the Prince’s Islands, and their properties too were confiscated and usurped.
• By prohibiting non-Muslims from engaging in any commercial activity and by leaving trade to the monopoly of certain influential people, nearly the entire nation was robbed.
• The lives of the two hundred and fifty thousand people [250,000] [who were mainly non-Muslims] of the Labor Battalions constituted by way of mobilization were wasted as a result of starvation and deprivation.

In 1919 Greek Members of the Turkish Parliament presented a Memorandum to the American Commission on Mandates Over Turkey detailing Turkey's crimes against its Greek minority population.

During the Greek Genocide period, Ottoman Greek deputies included the following individuals:

• Arzoglou, Deputy of Samsun
• Dimistokli Efkalides, Deputry of Tekirdağ
• Emanuel Emanuelides, Deputy of Aydın
• Haralambides, Deputy of Istanbul
• Euclides, Deputy of Rodosto
• Demetriades, Deputy of Metra
• Meimaroglou, Deputy of Izmir
• Neophytos, Deputy of Gallipoli
• Kalinoglou, Deputy of Nigde
• Kevessides, Deputy of Afion-Karahissar
• Kosmides, Deputy of Istanbul
• Simeonoglou, Deputy of Izmir
• Tokinides, Deputy of Çatalca
• Tsorbajoglou, Deputy of Istanbul
• Vangel, Deputy of Izmir
• Yorgi Yuvanides

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Compiled for Greek-Genocide.org, 17 August 2008