Greek Genocide Resource Center

After serving valiantly in the Ottoman Army during WW1, Michail Angelou was elected to the National Assembly of Ankara before being arrested, imprisoned and relocated. He also served in the Kemalist army. Despite his loyalty, he too was persecuted. Read: amzn.to/3DL3jYs

[New] In the wake of WWI, pogroms targeting the indigenous Armenian, Assyrian and Greek communities of the Ottoman Empire took a genocidal turn. As the collapsed empire rose from its ashes, those victims who were not slaughtered were forcibly assimilated. amazon.com.au/Hyphenated-Liv…

Did the Kemalists sell the bodies of Greek and Armenian Genocide victims to industries for use as fertilizer? Read the 1924 news reports: greek-genocide.net/index.php…

New release chronicling the life of Mabel E. Elliott (1881-1968), an American physician who cared for Greek and Armenian refugees and orphans during and after the Ottoman-era genocides. Available at Amazon > amzn.to/3VnYie1

The Greek Genocide included massacres, forced relocations and death marches, boycotts, rape, forced conversion to Islam, conscription into labor battalions, executions and destruction of Christian Orthodox cultural, historical and religious monuments. greek-genocide.net

TURKS KILLED 120,000 East Oregonian, Sep 16, 1922. Many Girls Have Been Kidnapped. #SmyrnaHolocaust Read: greek-genocide.net/index.php…

13 Sep 1922: US naval officers received reports of houses burning in the Armenian quarter of Smyrna. Kemalist soldiers were seen entering buildings and upon their departure, explosions and fire would break out. View timeline of events: greek-genocide.net/index.php…

The Turks enter Smyrna (Tr: İzmir): 9 September 1922. View a timeline of events leading to the Smyrna Holocaust: greek-genocide.net/index.php…

Three books and a film about the Smyrna Holocaust worth considering. More book: greek-genocide.net/index.php…

The final phase of the #GreekGenocide took place at Smyrna (İzmir) in Sep 1922 when Kemalist forces entered the city and took part in an orgy of looting, rape and massacre that targeted the city's Christian population, primarily Greeks and Armenians. > greek-genocide.net/index.php…

After Kemal's death in 1938, Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas renamed Apostolos Pavlos Street in Thessaloniki to Kemal Ataturk St. He also used public funds to buy the home (which Kemal was supposedly born in) and gifted it to Turkey. More in our new book: amzn.to/43nDx5I

Feridunoğlu Osman Ağa was a brigand and Kemalist military commander responsible for the murder of a vast number of Greeks during the #GreekGenocide. Read a list of atrocities committed: greek-genocide.net/index.php…

The Greeks of Samsun were deported in three waves during the #GreekGenocide: 1916/17, 1921 and 1922. Before these deportations, Greeks in the region numbered ~80,000 and made up about 65% of the total population. greek-genocide.net/index.php…

Containing a selection of papers presented at The Genocide of the Christian Populations of the Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath (1908–1923) international conference, hosted by the Chair for Pontic Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. > amzn.to/3EtG7P9

Greek pharmacist Michail Angelou of Küplü in Asia Minor described Başköy as a flourishing village situated among plush greenery. Out of a population of 3,500 living there, 2,000 were Greek. The village was pillaged and burned by the Kemalists. Read: amzn.to/4iuLUmd

Joice N. Loch (1887-1982) was an Australian humanitarian who helped #GreekGenocide survivors in the town of Ouranoupoli near Mount Athos. She and her husband set up schools for girls, provided medical assistance & helped the refugees rebuild their lives. > amzn.to/42aPXib

Nov 4, 1922. A scene from the evacuation of Greeks from Adrianople (today Edirne) in Eastern Thrace during the #GreekGenocide. After hearing that the Kemalists were to occupy E. Thrace, Greeks fled to avoid being massacred. More: greek-genocide.net/overview/…

Part of a group of 42 Greek orphans received at an orphanage at Marsovan (today Merzifon) in Turkey, May 1919. At one stage the orphanage housed 600 Greek and Armenian children who had become orphans due to the genocide. Source: Trustees of Anatolia College.

From 1913 to 1923, Turkey's rulers deported, killed, or otherwise persecuted staggering numbers of citizens in an attempt to preserve “Turkey for the Turks,” setting a modern precedent for how a regime can commit genocide. > greek-genocide.net/index.php…

Metropolitan Chrysostomos Kalafatis was the Metropolitan of #Smyrna from 1910-1914 and 1919-1922. On Sep 10, 1922, a day after Kemalist forces occupied Smyrna, Chrysostomos was handed over to a mob who subsequently tortured and murdered him. More: greek-genocide.net/index.php…