September is the Cruelest Month of All: The Destruction of Smyrna, 1922.

[Gavur]

Smyrna

Before The Turks

[Gavur]

Greek army came in to protect the greeks in Asia minor after countless massacres by the Turks thats the fact Jacq!

These Turks
When Brits and the Americans gave them the ok went in to Smyrna to cleans any evidence of the Greeks and the Armenians dominance in that city

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Hellenic soldiers giving food to Turkish children during the war against Turkey.

See these

[Gavur]

Dentist of the Hellenic Army examines Ottomans for free during the war against Turkey

And those

[Gavur]

Hellenic soldiers giving food to poor Ottomans during the war against Turkey.

Wha about these

[Gavur]

Mustafa Kemal and his Kurdish allies. After the Armenians, Assyrians and Hellenes, hi

Mustafa Kemal and his Kurdish allies. After the Armenians, Assyrians and Hellenes, he had them eliminated

[TurQ]

They should be army of angels instead? They came to Anatolia to increase life quality of Greeks and as well as Turks. We are totally mistaken! pity us!
Do you honestly believe in those?

Wha about these

[1.5 million]

TurQ - sorry to inform you - but I suggest you consider the Turkish actions as part of the CUP "national economy" campaign (think Kristilnacht but on a much larger and more enduring scale) that occured in 1913/14 in this very region (with up to 300,000 Greeks killed or uprooted). And then there was the Pontion Genocide of 1916 and thereabouts - all well documented BTW - where the CUP "gangs" went after the Greeks after they had taken care of the "Armenian Question". You might then understand the Greek fury and desire for revenge. And yes - the retreating Greek army - befrit of its officers and fleeing in a rout - totally out of control - torched towns and villages and murdered many Turks on its way west - but they most assuradly did not burn Smyrna...they were long gone by the time it burned. (Though i understand the Turkish anger for the horrible crimes that many of these Greek soldiers did commit) And there is more then sufficient corraborated documentation that clearly shows that Turkish forces deliberatly set fires in the Armenian areas after rounding up and killing all the Armenians they could find...this fire got out of control....but somehow only the Greek and Armenian protions of the city were completely destroyed....funny that eh?

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The Black Book 1920

The Hellenic Genocide
Quotes from historical documents and related Photos.


The Hellenic Genocide was the systematic torture, massacre and ethnic cleansing of several millions Hellenes (Greeks) perpetrated by the Turks in Asia Minor, Constantinople (called Istanbul by the Turks), Eastern Thrace, Imvros, Tenedos, Macedonia, Cappadocia and Pontos between the beginning of the 1890's and the end of the 1950's.

Millions of children, men and women were tortured and massacred or expelled from their homes only for being Hellenes. In the same places and often at the same time, were also tortured and massacred millions of Armenians and Assyrians of all ages.

The only "sin" of those millions of persons was to live where their ancestors had lived for thousands of years before the Turkish invasions. The Turkish rulers carried out with unimaginable cruelty their plan to create a "Turkey for the Turks."

The policy of extermination of the Hellenes had already been applied to the population of the island of Chios, in 1822, exactly a century before the Turkish army destroyed the city of Smyrna.

The Genocide of the Hellenes of Chios was an anticipation of the Hellenic Genocide, which engulfed all Hellenes the Turks could reach and should have been enough to remind the world that impunity will always cause similar and often worse crimes.

The most known Genocides, the Holocaust, perpetrated by the Germans (with support of Turkey) in the World War II, would possibly not happen if the Genocides perpetrated by the Turks (with support of Germany) had already been acknowledged. One can't understand completely the Holocaust without understanding first the Genocides that preceded it and made it possible.
© 2001-2003 HEC and Roberto Lopes. Updated on 15 September 2003.



THE BLACK BOOK
ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE



THE BLACK BOOK





OF THE

SUFFERINGS OF THE GREEK PEOPLE

IN T U R K E Y

FROM THE ARMISTICE TO THE END OF 1920


PART B



OF CENTRAL AND

WESTERN

ASIA MINOR













DIOCESE OF ANGORA

Brigandage did not cease in the district of Angora and particularly in Kaza of Haimana, where all business transactions among the non-Moslem population were consequently completely paralyzed. The brigands remain unpunished, because the Government Authorities claimed their gendarmerie force was insufficient.

In July 1919, the miller George Vassiloglou was murdered at a spot, two hours away from the station of Alpou Keuy, beyond the city of Eski Shehir .

The Christian communities were terrorized. The male Christians of Eski Shehir were deported from the town, after being imprisoned and heavily taxed. Violations and murders were perpetrated, details of which have not yet been received. Houses of Christians were robbed of their furniture and even of their windows.

Children 10 to 12 years of age were mercilessly beaten as they were conducted to the military headquarters to be questioned if their fathers, uncles or brothers were hiding and to disclose where they could be found. Irregular and regular soldiers drove people out of their homes and entering the Christian houses, carried away everything they wanted.

The town of Kutahia was the scene of indescribable atrocities, from the day on which the fanatical Kemalists Tserkess Edhem Bey and Major Ismail Hakky Bey arrived there. The latter followed by 150 chosen Albanians, found no great difficulty in obtaining the assistance of the Turks of Kutahia. After consulting with them, planned the annihilation of the Greek and the other Christian elements, himself presiding in all those acts of horror. He ordered that all Greeks be disarmed. His agents searched the houses of several people. Two double-barreled guns were found in the house of Anastas Abajoglou and the poor man was arrested. While taken to the military headquarters, two hand-bombs were put by the guards into his bag, which he was compelled to take along. He was then brought into the presence of Edhem Bey, who ordered the poor man to be hanged at once.

Some people in the district of Kutahia were called to enlist and the Greek community of that town was asked to deliver 245 military rifles with proportionate quantities of ammunition, for their exemption from military service. But the Greeks of that town had no rifles and had to purchase them. A committee was then formed by Messrs Anastasios Symeonidis, a lawyer, and Yannakos Papadopoulos, a merchant, who were given passes by Ismail Hakky Bey himself and went to the surrounding villages to buying fire-arms. At the same time Ismail Hakky sent the chieftain Pehlivan, at the head of a band of irregular soldiers to the same villages. The aforesaid Anastasios Symeonidis and Yannakas Papadopoulos, with their coach-driver Ilia Sakidji, were aprehended in the middle of July by a band of rebels and were carried to Tcham-lidja, a neighboring grove of pine-trees, near the village of Ova-Keuy, where all three were tied with popes and killed after horrible tortures. The bodies of the unfortunate men, with the assistance of villagers of Ova-Keuy, were found by some Greeks four days after the crime, lead by the dogs of the village. Anastasios Symeonides had his right thigh pierced by a red-hot iron and had a deep bayonet wound in his stomach. The toes of both his feet were separated by deep cuts and the soles of his feet had wide wounds caused by a sharp tool. Yannakos Papadopoulos and the coachman Ilias Sakidjis had deep wounds in their chests caused by a sharp tool. These two men had apparently not been tortured. The bodies were brought to the Greek cemetery of Kutahia, placed into a casket and buried after a fourth victim, Constantinos Takinakoglou, was added to their member, who had been killed in the outskirts of the town on the previous day. The real perpetrators of these crimes were Edhem and Ismail Hakky. To a committee of Greeks, which called upon them to ask about the men who had not returned home, these officers replied that they were sent to invite the Greek army to come and take possession of Kutahia. They moreover threatened the committee with imprisonment.

Repeated murders followed the above mentioned crimes. Two Greeks, Constantinos Demerdjis and Nicolas Abajis were murdered in a mill near the town. Five others, Pandelis Karagiorzis, Haralambos Karabournis, Anastasios Seraphimidis and two others whose names have not been ascertained, were murdered by Tevfik Bey, Edhem Bey's brother, near the village Tourgoutlar, after being tied by their hands at their backs with a rope. These men's bodies had remained unburied. Lazaros Mihailidis and three others were murdered by a Band of irregulars in a village where they had gone to repair a Mosque. Costis Zeibekoglou, Dimitrios Akbabas and three others, Armenian coachmen, were seized by Kemalists and forced to go to the front at Getis. There the coaches and horses were taken from them and the men were ordered to go back to where they had come from. But only after walking a few steps, they were shot from behind and killed.

Another measure of gradual annihilation was used against the defenseless Greek population of Kutahia, as if all these crimes were not sufficient. On the 28th of August, 27 notables of the Greek community were arrested and following a plan, well organized beforehand, they were joined by other men from the Armenian and Armeno-Catholic communities. Then they all were unjustly displaced to Eski Shehir and thence to the district of Angora. On the following day, a public herald announced that all Christian males, above the age of 15, should assemble at an appointed place, under penalty of death for disobedience. On assembling, all those who could not walk, as well as the lame, blind and old, were thrown into railway carriages and sent to Eski Shehir, while the remaining men, 543 Greeks and a few Armenians and Armeno-Chatolics, were marched off under escort of gendarmes and irregulars. This last convoy was met near the village Sofdji by a section of a regiment, which, while lead to Bolou by Ismail Hakky Bey, had mutinied and killed all the Albanians entrusted by him. The fierce Ismail Hakky was also severely wounded. On meeting the mutineers this wretched convoy of the deported men, they killed the escorting gendarmes and irregulars and ordered the Christians to return to Kutahia. Panic seized the Christians hearing gun shots. Some of the remaining attempted to run away, but they were fire at by the mutineers and three of them were killed: Haralambos Kodjagas, Vassilios Koulakli, and Kyriakos Papailiou, while two others were wounded. Most of the others returned to Kutahia, after many vicissitudes, and hid themselves in their homes. About forty men are missing from this convoy, their fate being still unknown. Those sent to Eski Shehir were sent back to Kutahia by railway by order of Ali Fuad Pasha. But Edhem's brother, Tevfik Bey, to spite Ali Fuad Pasha, sent them back to Eski Shehir, and thence to Angora .



Rest of the provinces are in this book

http://www.greece.org/genocide/Blackbook.htm

Have fun

[TurQ]

These are utter lies, if they were honest about human side of those tragedies, they would have noted massacre of Greek Muslims and Turks of Crete in 1890s. If they were honest they would have noted the eve's day massacre of Mora Peninsula Muslims and Turks by Greeks and RUssians.

The Hellenic Genocide
Quotes from historical documents and related Photos.


The Hellenic Genocide was the systematic torture, massacre and ethnic cleansing of several millions Hellenes (Greeks) perpetrated by the Turks in Asia Minor, Constantinople (called Istanbul by the Turks), Eastern Thrace, Imvros, Tenedos, Macedonia, Cappadocia and Pontos between the beginning of the 1890's and the end of the 1950's.

Millions of children, men and women were tortured and massacred or expelled from their homes only for being Hellenes. In the same places and often at the same time, were also tortured and massacred millions of Armenians and Assyrians of all ages.

The only "sin" of those millions of persons was to live where their ancestors had lived for thousands of years before the Turkish invasions. The Turkish rulers carried out with unimaginable cruelty their plan to create a "Turkey for the Turks."

The policy of extermination of the Hellenes had already been applied to the population of the island of Chios, in 1822, exactly a century before the Turkish army destroyed the city of Smyrna.

The Genocide of the Hellenes of Chios was an anticipation of the Hellenic Genocide, which engulfed all Hellenes the Turks could reach and should have been enough to remind the world that impunity will always cause similar and often worse crimes.

The most known Genocides, the Holocaust, perpetrated by the Germans (with support of Turkey) in the World War II, would possibly not happen if the Genocides perpetrated by the Turks (with support of Germany) had already been acknowledged. One can't understand completely the Holocaust without understanding first the Genocides that preceded it and made it possible.
© 2001-2003 HEC and Roberto Lopes. Updated on 15 September 2003.



THE BLACK BOOK
ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE



THE BLACK BOOK





OF THE

SUFFERINGS OF THE GREEK PEOPLE

IN T U R K E Y

FROM THE ARMISTICE TO THE END OF 1920


PART B



OF CENTRAL AND

WESTERN

ASIA MINOR













DIOCESE OF ANGORA

Brigandage did not cease in the district of Angora and particularly in Kaza of Haimana, where all business transactions among the non-Moslem population were consequently completely paralyzed. The brigands remain unpunished, because the Government Authorities claimed their gendarmerie force was insufficient.

In July 1919, the miller George Vassiloglou was murdered at a spot, two hours away from the station of Alpou Keuy, beyond the city of Eski Shehir .

The Christian communities were terrorized. The male Christians of Eski Shehir were deported from the town, after being imprisoned and heavily taxed. Violations and murders were perpetrated, details of which have not yet been received. Houses of Christians were robbed of their furniture and even of their windows.

Children 10 to 12 years of age were mercilessly beaten as they were conducted to the military headquarters to be questioned if their fathers, uncles or brothers were hiding and to disclose where they could be found. Irregular and regular soldiers drove people out of their homes and entering the Christian houses, carried away everything they wanted.

The town of Kutahia was the scene of indescribable atrocities, from the day on which the fanatical Kemalists Tserkess Edhem Bey and Major Ismail Hakky Bey arrived there. The latter followed by 150 chosen Albanians, found no great difficulty in obtaining the assistance of the Turks of Kutahia. After consulting with them, planned the annihilation of the Greek and the other Christian elements, himself presiding in all those acts of horror. He ordered that all Greeks be disarmed. His agents searched the houses of several people. Two double-barreled guns were found in the house of Anastas Abajoglou and the poor man was arrested. While taken to the military headquarters, two hand-bombs were put by the guards into his bag, which he was compelled to take along. He was then brought into the presence of Edhem Bey, who ordered the poor man to be hanged at once.

Some people in the district of Kutahia were called to enlist and the Greek community of that town was asked to deliver 245 military rifles with proportionate quantities of ammunition, for their exemption from military service. But the Greeks of that town had no rifles and had to purchase them. A committee was then formed by Messrs Anastasios Symeonidis, a lawyer, and Yannakos Papadopoulos, a merchant, who were given passes by Ismail Hakky Bey himself and went to the surrounding villages to buying fire-arms. At the same time Ismail Hakky sent the chieftain Pehlivan, at the head of a band of irregular soldiers to the same villages. The aforesaid Anastasios Symeonidis and Yannakas Papadopoulos, with their coach-driver Ilia Sakidji, were aprehended in the middle of July by a band of rebels and were carried to Tcham-lidja, a neighboring grove of pine-trees, near the village of Ova-Keuy, where all three were tied with popes and killed after horrible tortures. The bodies of the unfortunate men, with the assistance of villagers of Ova-Keuy, were found by some Greeks four days after the crime, lead by the dogs of the village. Anastasios Symeonides had his right thigh pierced by a red-hot iron and had a deep bayonet wound in his stomach. The toes of both his feet were separated by deep cuts and the soles of his feet had wide wounds caused by a sharp tool. Yannakos Papadopoulos and the coachman Ilias Sakidjis had deep wounds in their chests caused by a sharp tool. These two men had apparently not been tortured. The bodies were brought to the Greek cemetery of Kutahia, placed into a casket and buried after a fourth victim, Constantinos Takinakoglou, was added to their member, who had been killed in the outskirts of the town on the previous day. The real perpetrators of these crimes were Edhem and Ismail Hakky. To a committee of Greeks, which called upon them to ask about the men who had not returned home, these officers replied that they were sent to invite the Greek army to come and take possession of Kutahia. They moreover threatened the committee with imprisonment.

Repeated murders followed the above mentioned crimes. Two Greeks, Constantinos Demerdjis and Nicolas Abajis were murdered in a mill near the town. Five others, Pandelis Karagiorzis, Haralambos Karabournis, Anastasios Seraphimidis and two others whose names have not been ascertained, were murdered by Tevfik Bey, Edhem Bey's brother, near the village Tourgoutlar, after being tied by their hands at their backs with a rope. These men's bodies had remained unburied. Lazaros Mihailidis and three others were murdered by a Band of irregulars in a village where they had gone to repair a Mosque. Costis Zeibekoglou, Dimitrios Akbabas and three others, Armenian coachmen, were seized by Kemalists and forced to go to the front at Getis. There the coaches and horses were taken from them and the men were ordered to go back to where they had come from. But only after walking a few steps, they were shot from behind and killed.

Another measure of gradual annihilation was used against the defenseless Greek population of Kutahia, as if all these crimes were not sufficient. On the 28th of August, 27 notables of the Greek community were arrested and following a plan, well organized beforehand, they were joined by other men from the Armenian and Armeno-Catholic communities. Then they all were unjustly displaced to Eski Shehir and thence to the district of Angora. On the following day, a public herald announced that all Christian males, above the age of 15, should assemble at an appointed place, under penalty of death for disobedience. On assembling, all those who could not walk, as well as the lame, blind and old, were thrown into railway carriages and sent to Eski Shehir, while the remaining men, 543 Greeks and a few Armenians and Armeno-Chatolics, were marched off under escort of gendarmes and irregulars. This last convoy was met near the village Sofdji by a section of a regiment, which, while lead to Bolou by Ismail Hakky Bey, had mutinied and killed all the Albanians entrusted by him. The fierce Ismail Hakky was also severely wounded. On meeting the mutineers this wretched convoy of the deported men, they killed the escorting gendarmes and irregulars and ordered the Christians to return to Kutahia. Panic seized the Christians hearing gun shots. Some of the remaining attempted to run away, but they were fire at by the mutineers and three of them were killed: Haralambos Kodjagas, Vassilios Koulakli, and Kyriakos Papailiou, while two others were wounded. Most of the others returned to Kutahia, after many vicissitudes, and hid themselves in their homes. About forty men are missing from this convoy, their fate being still unknown. Those sent to Eski Shehir were sent back to Kutahia by railway by order of Ali Fuad Pasha. But Edhem's brother, Tevfik Bey, to spite Ali Fuad Pasha, sent them back to Eski Shehir, and thence to Angora .



Rest of the provinces are in this book

http://www.greece.org/genocide/Blackbook.htm

Have fun