Quotes
Quotes of Western Officials
Quotes of Turkish Officials
Quotes of German and Austro-Hungarian Officials
Quotes of Relief Workers and Missionaries
Various Other Quotes
Quotes of Western Officials:
Henry Morgenthau |
In an article first published in "The Red Cross Magazine" of March 1918, Henry Morgenthau, United States ambassador to Turkey, asks:
Henry Morgenthau, United States ambassador to Turkey, in his book "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story" (Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1918) writes:
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Alexander Millerand |
Alexander Millerand, President of the Supreme Allied Council, 17th of July 1920:
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Lloyd George |
Lloyd George, British Prime Minister, House of Commons:
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Horace Rumbold |
Sir Horace Rumbold, British High Commissioner in Constantinople to Lord George Curzon, British Minister of Foreign Affairs:
Sir Horace Rumbold, British High Commissioner in Constantinople:
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Winston Churchill |
In his book "The Aftermath" (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1929, p. 444.) Winston Churchill wrote:
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George Horton |
George Horton, US Consul General at Smyrna wrote:
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Quotes of Turkish Officials:
Sefker Pasha |
Sefker Pasha tells Orthodox Patriarch Ioakeim III (1834-1912), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, on the 26th of July 1909:
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Talaat Bey |
In a telegram to the Prefect of Smyrna on the 14th of May 1914, Talaat Bey, Minister of the Interior of the Ottoman Government, writes:
Talaat Bey writes in a telegram dated the 7th of March 1916:
According to an Austro-Hungarian agent, Talaat Bey on the 31st of January 1917 declared:
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Rafet Bey |
On the 26th of November 1916 Rafet Bey tells Ernst von Kwiatkowski, Austro-Hungarian consul in Sampsounta:
And on the 28th of Novemeber 1916 Rafet Bey tells Ernst von Kwiatkowski:
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Damad Ferid |
Damad Ferid, the Turkish Grand Vizier, described Turkey's policy of extermination against the Christians at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference as crimes:
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Mustafa Kemal |
As validated by French military colonel Mougin, on the 13th of August 1923, in the Turkish Grand National Assembly (Turkiye Buyuk Millet Meclisi) in Ankara, Mustafa Kemal declared:
In an interview with Swiss journalist Emile Hilderbrand, published on Sunday August 1st 1926 in the Los Angeles Examiner under the title "Kemal Promises More Hangings of Political Antagonists in Turkey", Mustafa Kemal states:
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Quotes of German and Austro-Hungarian Officials:
Wangenheim |
Wangenheim, German Ambassador in Athens, 24/7/1909
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Herr Kuckhoff |
Herr Kuckhoff, German ambassador at Amisos, 16/7/1916.
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Ernst von Kwiatkowski |
Ernst von Kwiatkowski, Austro-Hungarian consul in Sampsounta, 30/11/1916.
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Kuhlman |
Kuhlman, German Ambassador, 13/12/1916.
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Von Bethmann-Hollweg |
Von Bethmann- Hollweg, German Imperial Chancellor, 31/01/1917.
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Quotes of Relief Workers and Missionaries:
Johannes Lepsius |
Johannes Lepsius, Germany missionary, 31/7/1915.
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Frank Jackson |
Frank W. Jackson, Chairman of the Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor, 17/10/1917
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Stanley Hopkins |
Stanley Hopkins, American employee of the Near East Relief, 16/11/1921
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Alfred Brady |
Alfred E. Brady, American Smyrna Disaster Committee, 1922.
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Forrest Yowell |
F.D. Yowell, Director of the Harpoot Unit, Near East Relief, 5/5/1922.
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Mark Ward |
Dr. Mark H. Ward, Medical missionary for the Near East Relief, 7/6/1922.
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E. O. Jacobs |
Mr. E. O. Jacobs, General Secretary to the Smyrna Y.M.C.A:
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Various Other Quotes:
Israel Charney |
Prof. Israel Charney, former president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars and Executive Director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem:
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Gregory Stanton |
Prof. Gregory Stanton, president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), stated in response to the IAGS resolution affirming the Greek and Assyrian Genocides:
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Rudolph Rummel |
Prof. Rudolph Joseph Rummel, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii, in his publication titled "Statistics of Democide" wrote:
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Mark Levene |
Historian Dr. Mark Levene, in his journal titled “Creating a modern ‘zone of genocide’: The impact of nation- and state-formation on Eastern Anatolia, 1878-1923”, writes:
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Hannibal Travis |
Prof. Hannibal Travis of Florida International University College of Law, in his paper "Native Christians Massacred" published in the Genocide Studies and Prevention journal, December 2006, writes:
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Taner Akcam |
Turkish professor Taner Akcam in a televised interview aired in 2005 stated:
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Richard M. Dawkins |
Prof. Richard MacGillivray Dawkins (1871–1955), an Oxford University professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek studies, stated in an article published on the 10th of September 1915 in The Times that:
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Silas Bent |
In an article titled the "Uprooting of Greeks in Turkey", which appeared in The New York Times on the 21st of January 1923 regarding the Treaty of Lausanne, Professor Silas Bent, American journalist, author and lecturer, wrote:
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Stephen Pound |
On the 7th of June 2006, Stephen Pound, Member of the British Parliament, raised the issue of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides in the House of Commons:
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