The Greeks in Turkey (Turkish: Rumlar) constitute a population of Greek and Greek-speaking Eastern Orthodox Christians who mostly live in Istanbul, as well as on the two islands of the western entrance to the Dardanelles: Imbros and Tenedos (Turkish: Gökçeada and Bozcaada).. Relocation was targeted at specific regions that were considered militarily vulnerable, not the whole of the Greek population. Atrocities were committed against Greek and Armenian populaces, and their properties were pillaged. The resultant Greek culture in Asia Minor flourished during a millennium of rule (4th century – 15th century AD) under the mainly Greek-speaking Beginning in the spring of 1913, the Ottomans implemented a programme of expulsions and forcible migrations, focusing on Greeks of the Aegean region and eastern Thrace, whose presence in these areas was deemed a threat to national security.One of the worst attacks of this campaign attack took place in The forceful expulsion of Christians of western Anatolia, especially Ottoman Greeks, has many similarities with After November 1914 Ottoman policy towards the Greek population shifted; state policy was restricted to the forceful migration to the Anatolian hinterland of Greeks living in coastal areas, particularly the In July 1915 the Greek chargé d'affaires claimed that the deportations "can not be any other issue than an annihilation war against the Greek nation in Turkey and as measures hereof they have been implementing forced conversions to Islam, in obvious aim to, that if after the end of the war there again would be a question of European intervention for the protection of the Christians, there will be as few of them left as possible. Thomas, Alexiadis (2008). 50-51. In 1920, the insurgents reached their peak in regard to manpower numbering 18,000 men.After the Ottoman Empire capitulated on 30 October 1918, it came under the de jure control of the victorious Entente Powers. If Professor Lemkin has his way genocide will be established as an international crime...Several scholars researching the Armenian genocide, such as Other genocide scholars, such as Dominik J. Schaller and Jürgen Zimmerer, however stated that the "genocidal quality of the murderous campaigns against Greeks" is "obvious".Seminars and courses in several western universities examine the events. The official Nazi newspaper A Nazi publication of 1925 exalts the new Turkish state for its "cleansing" policy, which "threw the Greek element to the sea". Encountering Genocide: Personal Accounts from Victims, Perpetrators, and Witnesses. Most of the eye-witness reports identified troops from the Turkish army having set the fire in the city. Naval Institute Press, p. 102.Bartrop, Paul R. (2014). (Ihrig, 2014, σελ. Yunan mezalimi: İzmir, Aydın, Manisa, Denizli : 1919-1923, Mustafa Turan, University of Michigan-Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi, 2006|url=Batı Anadolu'da Yunan mezalimi:, Mustafa Tayla, University of Michigan,- Ankara Üniversitesi Basımevi,|url= On January 1, 1921, it featured the headline “Heroic Turkey.”21 Barely a month later the paper featured an article with the headline “Turkey— The Role Model” (or “The Pioneer,” Der Vorkämpfer). and propose the following reasons for the denial of the genocides by Turkey, quote:Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party, from its first steps, had used the methods of the Turkish state as a standard to draw inspiration from. The Greek government collected figures together with the Patriarchate to claim that a total of one million people were massacred.According to various sources the Greek death toll in the Pontus region of Anatolia ranges from 300,000 to 360,000.Genocide is no new phenomenon, nor has it been utterly ignored in the past. With Entente forces occupying Greek deportees were sent to live in Greek villages in the inner provinces or, in some case, villages where Armenians were living before being deported. 240 sq., 252-287, 626-650.Shenk, R. America's Black Sea Fleet: The U.S. Navy Amidst War and Revolution, 1919-1921". 145: "Atatürk and the New Turkey were constant reference points for the Nazis as part of their own biography, as an example of the perfect Führer story, and as examples of völkisch “good practice” in a variety of aspects"Ihrig, 2014, σελ. See the “Names and Spellings” section "We condemn and protest this resolution" a Turkish Foreign Ministry statement said. These include the Following an initiative of MPs of the so-called "patriotic" wing of the ruling In response to the 1998 law, the Turkish government released a statement which claimed that describing the events as genocide was "without any historical basis". 207: "The vast discussion of the Turkish role model and the New Turkey in the Third Reich media and publications means that the Third Reich had, at least implicitly, continually highlighted the “benefits” of “ethnic cleansing” and genocide. Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi Gizli Celse Zabitlari, Kültür Yayinlari Türkiye Is Bankasi, v. 2, pp. The strategy implemented by the Turks is of displacing people to the interior without taking measures for their survival by exposing them to death, hunger, and illness. University of Thessaloniki, p. 157Ebubekir Hazım Tepeyran, Belgelerle Kurtuluş Savaşı Anıları, Istanbul 1982, p. 81. p. 64. The abandoned homes are then looted and burnt or destroyed.
The Greeks in Turkey (Turkish: Rumlar) constitute a population of Greek and Greek-speaking Eastern Orthodox Christians who mostly live in Istanbul, as well as on the two islands of the western entrance to the Dardanelles: Imbros and Tenedos (Turkish: Gökçeada and Bozcaada).. Relocation was targeted at specific regions that were considered militarily vulnerable, not the whole of the Greek population. Atrocities were committed against Greek and Armenian populaces, and their properties were pillaged. The resultant Greek culture in Asia Minor flourished during a millennium of rule (4th century – 15th century AD) under the mainly Greek-speaking Beginning in the spring of 1913, the Ottomans implemented a programme of expulsions and forcible migrations, focusing on Greeks of the Aegean region and eastern Thrace, whose presence in these areas was deemed a threat to national security.One of the worst attacks of this campaign attack took place in The forceful expulsion of Christians of western Anatolia, especially Ottoman Greeks, has many similarities with After November 1914 Ottoman policy towards the Greek population shifted; state policy was restricted to the forceful migration to the Anatolian hinterland of Greeks living in coastal areas, particularly the In July 1915 the Greek chargé d'affaires claimed that the deportations "can not be any other issue than an annihilation war against the Greek nation in Turkey and as measures hereof they have been implementing forced conversions to Islam, in obvious aim to, that if after the end of the war there again would be a question of European intervention for the protection of the Christians, there will be as few of them left as possible. Thomas, Alexiadis (2008). 50-51. In 1920, the insurgents reached their peak in regard to manpower numbering 18,000 men.After the Ottoman Empire capitulated on 30 October 1918, it came under the de jure control of the victorious Entente Powers. If Professor Lemkin has his way genocide will be established as an international crime...Several scholars researching the Armenian genocide, such as Other genocide scholars, such as Dominik J. Schaller and Jürgen Zimmerer, however stated that the "genocidal quality of the murderous campaigns against Greeks" is "obvious".Seminars and courses in several western universities examine the events. The official Nazi newspaper A Nazi publication of 1925 exalts the new Turkish state for its "cleansing" policy, which "threw the Greek element to the sea". Encountering Genocide: Personal Accounts from Victims, Perpetrators, and Witnesses. Most of the eye-witness reports identified troops from the Turkish army having set the fire in the city. Naval Institute Press, p. 102.Bartrop, Paul R. (2014). (Ihrig, 2014, σελ. Yunan mezalimi: İzmir, Aydın, Manisa, Denizli : 1919-1923, Mustafa Turan, University of Michigan-Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi, 2006|url=Batı Anadolu'da Yunan mezalimi:, Mustafa Tayla, University of Michigan,- Ankara Üniversitesi Basımevi,|url= On January 1, 1921, it featured the headline “Heroic Turkey.”21 Barely a month later the paper featured an article with the headline “Turkey— The Role Model” (or “The Pioneer,” Der Vorkämpfer). and propose the following reasons for the denial of the genocides by Turkey, quote:Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party, from its first steps, had used the methods of the Turkish state as a standard to draw inspiration from. The Greek government collected figures together with the Patriarchate to claim that a total of one million people were massacred.According to various sources the Greek death toll in the Pontus region of Anatolia ranges from 300,000 to 360,000.Genocide is no new phenomenon, nor has it been utterly ignored in the past. With Entente forces occupying Greek deportees were sent to live in Greek villages in the inner provinces or, in some case, villages where Armenians were living before being deported. 240 sq., 252-287, 626-650.Shenk, R. America's Black Sea Fleet: The U.S. Navy Amidst War and Revolution, 1919-1921". 145: "Atatürk and the New Turkey were constant reference points for the Nazis as part of their own biography, as an example of the perfect Führer story, and as examples of völkisch “good practice” in a variety of aspects"Ihrig, 2014, σελ. See the “Names and Spellings” section "We condemn and protest this resolution" a Turkish Foreign Ministry statement said. These include the Following an initiative of MPs of the so-called "patriotic" wing of the ruling In response to the 1998 law, the Turkish government released a statement which claimed that describing the events as genocide was "without any historical basis". 207: "The vast discussion of the Turkish role model and the New Turkey in the Third Reich media and publications means that the Third Reich had, at least implicitly, continually highlighted the “benefits” of “ethnic cleansing” and genocide. Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi Gizli Celse Zabitlari, Kültür Yayinlari Türkiye Is Bankasi, v. 2, pp. The strategy implemented by the Turks is of displacing people to the interior without taking measures for their survival by exposing them to death, hunger, and illness. University of Thessaloniki, p. 157Ebubekir Hazım Tepeyran, Belgelerle Kurtuluş Savaşı Anıları, Istanbul 1982, p. 81. p. 64. The abandoned homes are then looted and burnt or destroyed.