Visual Documentation of the Genocide
Featured below is a selection of photographs depicting the plight of Greeks in the Ottoman Empire during the period 1914 to 1923. As the scenes are of a distressing nature, caution is advised.
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The bodies of four massacred Greeks in western Anatolia (c. 1920) Photograph by Evangelos Pappas |
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The bodies of Greek men, women and children massacred and mutilated, western Anatolia (c. 1920) Photograph by Evangelos Pappas |
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Turkish troops standing beside their hanged victim, a decapitated and mutilated Greek woman, in Nazilli, Aydin, western Anatolia (15 June 1920) Photograph by N. Rigopoulos |
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Displaced Ottoman Greek family living in a makeshift shelter (c. 1920) Captured by an Italian photographer |
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Reaction to four Greek corpses, western Anatolia (c. 1920) Photograph by George Kardiakides (1883-1958) |
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A Greek male died after suffering intolerable privations (c. 1920) Captured by an Italian photographer |
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The body of a murdered Greek floating in the waters of Smyrna's quay (11 September 1922) Captured by an Italian photographer |
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Greek men in Smyrna guarded by Turkish troops for deportation to the interior (September 1922) Photograph by Major Charles D. Morris (1883-1954) of the Near East Relief |
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