Greek Genocide

The Greek Genocide

(Top side is the number of Greeks in Turkey in 1914 and Today and the Bottom side is the number of Armenians in Turkey in 1914 and Today,)

The Greek Genocide (Greek: Γενοκτονία των Ελλήνων and Turkish: Rum Kırımı) was carried out between 1913 and 1923 on Anatolia (Present Day; Turkey) by the Ottoman Turks and Nationalist Turks.

1.2 Million Greek Men, Women and Children were murdered by the Turks.

It was carried out at the same time the Ottoman Turks and the Nationalist Turks committed the Armenian Genocide (Armenian:  Հայոց ցեղասպանություն, Turkish: Ermeni Kırımı) in which 1.5 Million Armenian Men, Women and Children were murdered by the Turks.

The Muslim Turks wanted to murder the Greek Orthodox Christian Greeks and the Armenian Christian Armenians and wipe out Christianity from the Ottoman Empire and then Turkey.

The Turks murdered the Greeks through Massacres, Forced Death Marches through the Syrian Desert and Expulsions.

The Turks not only murdered the People, but also Raped the Greek and Armenian Girls and Women and forced Greek and Armenian Girls and Women to Convert to Islam and marry Turkish Muslims.

The Turks then went across the Country destroying countless Christian Monuments, Learning Centers and Churches.

The Greeks had been in Turkey since 1450 BC.

The Greek Poet, Homer, even lived in Turkey in 800 BC.

In 1912 there were 1.3 Million Greeks living in Turkey.

In June 1914 the first Massacre occurred at Phocaea (Present Day: Foça, Turkey) when the Ottoman Turks murdered 200 Greek Men, Women and Children and looted the whole Town forcing 6,200 of the Town’s Inhabitants to flee to Greece (many with Bayonet Wounds.)

The Murder then spread across the rest of the Ottoman Empire.

In 1920 in İzmit where 20,000 Greeks were massacred by the Turks.

 in 1921 in Samsun where 10,000 Greeks were massacred and 21,000 deported by the Turks.

In 1922 in Akhisar where 7,000 Greeks were massacred by the Turks.

 After the Ottoman Empire collapsed in October 1918 the murders of the Greeks and the Armenians continued under the Nationalist Movement led by Mustafa Kemal (later Atatürk) who was President of Turkey from 1923-1938.

The Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor (1917–1921) worked to save the Greeks inside Turkey as well as those who were able to flee Turkey.

It was similar to the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief (ACASR) which worked from 1915-1923 to save Armenians inside Turkey as well as those who were able to flee Turkey.

The German and Austo-Hungarian Allies of Turkey during World War 1 repeatedly wrote about the Turkish Massacres of the Greeks and the Armenians while they were happening as well as giving evidence in the Trials in the 1920s even after the collapse of Kaiser Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Henry Morgenthau, the United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1916, accused the Turkish Government of a Campaign of

"outrageous terrorizing, cruel torturing, driving of women into harems, debauchery of innocent girls, the sale of many of them at 80 cents each, the murdering of hundreds of thousands and the deportation to and starvation in the desert of other hundreds of thousands, and the destruction of hundreds of villages and many cities", all part of "the willful execution of a scheme to annihilate the Armenian, Greek and Syrian Christians of Turkey.”

Article 142 of the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres, prepared after the First World War, called the Wartime Turkish Regime "terrorist" and contained provisions "to repair so far as possible the wrongs inflicted on individuals in the course of the Massacres perpetrated in Turkey during the war."

The Treaty of Sèvres was never ratified by the Turkish Government and ultimately was replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne which was accompanied by a "Declaration of Amnesty", without containing any provision in respect to punishment of War Crimes.

In 1923 a Forced Population Transfer was carried out.

400,000 Turks were expelled from Greece.

1,221,489 Greeks were expelled from Turkey.

The Greeks lost their Turkish Citizenship, their Homes and all their Belongings which was taken over  by the Turkish Government.

The Christian Population (Greeks and Armenians) inside Turkey had been reduced from 4.4 Million (in 1912) to 700,000 (in 1924.)

Greece, which had a Population of 5,000,000 in 1924, had to absorb the 1,221,489 Greeks from Turkey with little to no outside help from the rest of the World.

In 1932 Turkey barred the remaining Greeks in Turkey from 30 Trades and Professions from Tailor and Carpenter to Medicine, Law, and Real Estate,

In 1942, during World War 2 (which Turkey was Neutral in) Turkey imposed a Varlık Vergisi Capital Gains Tax on all Non-Muslim Citizens (including the Greeks and the Armenians.)

Jews in Turkey had to pay 179% in Taxes.

Armenians in Turkey had to pay 232% in Taxes.

Greeks in Turkey had to pay 156% in Taxes.

Those who couldn’t pay were sent to Labor Camps to work it off.

In September 1955 the Istanbul Pogrom saw 1,000 Armenians, Jews and Greeks injured and 400 Greek, Jewish and Armenian Boys and Girls raped by the Turks.

The Turks wanted to kick-out the remaining Non-Muslim Armenians, Jews and Greeks from Turkey.

$6 Billion US Dollars (in 2026 Dollars) worth of damage was done to Greek, Jewish and Armenian Homes, Businesses, Synagogues, 23 Schools and 37 Churches.

40,000 Greeks fled Turkey after the Pogrom (they were only allowed to take $23 US Dollars by the Turkish Government and all of the Property inside Turkey was given to the Turkish Government.)

Today, the Greek Population of Turkey is only 2,000 People.

It is illegal in Turkey to call the Turkish murder of the 1.2 Million Greek Men, Women and Children a Genocide (just as it is illegal to call the Turkish murder of the 1.5 Million Armenian Men, Women and Children a Genocide.)

In 2007, the International Association of Genocide Scholars declared the Turkish Murder of the Greeks as a Genocide (at the same time they also recognized the Turkish Murder of the Armenians as a Genocide.)

The Following Countries also recognize the Turkish murder of the Greeks as a Genocide: Greece, Cyprus, the United States, Sweden, Armenia, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Austria and Germany.