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    General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”

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    Movie: Aftermath of Smyrna

    My grandfather, George Magarian, born in 1895, educated at the American College at Konia, Turkey and, later, director of the Konya YMCA, filmed Smyrna, Turke...
    General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”

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      South China Morning Post, HongKong
      June 8, 2008 Sunday

      Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922

      by Ed Peters


      Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922

      by Giles Milton

      Sceptre, $320

      It is axiomatic that history repeats itself and while Giles Milton is
      too subtle a writer to underline a moral, the catastrophe that
      overtook Smyrna in 1922 is echoed by more recent events in Rwanda and
      Darfur, to name but two degraded places.

      The city now called Izmir occupied a unique position on the Aegean
      coast in the aftermath of the first world war. Thanks to an indulgent
      arrangement with the Turkish government, it enjoyed the status of a
      special economic zone and a bevy of merchant princes turned it into
      one of the most prosperous entrepôts of the time.

      Cosmopolitan and tolerant, Smyrna's numerous nationalities existed
      side by side, watched over

      by paternalistic, dynastic Levantine families who intermingled and
      intermarried, socialised and traded with one another in a latter-day
      Arcadia. But the idyll was not to last.

      Greece, which harboured territorial ambitions, landed an army in
      Smyrna in May 1919, which pushed deep into Anatolia, but after a
      lengthy campaign was defeated and driven back to the coast. Avenging
      Turkish forces, headed by Mustafa Kemal, followed in hot pursuit and
      bent on revenge.

      At first the Smyrniots assumed they would be spared, putting up no
      resistance and placing their faith in their city's obvious economic
      benefit to Turkey. A fleet of Allied warships was anchored in the
      harbour, which residents reasoned would keep the Turks in
      check. Kemal's cavalry trotted into the city on September 9, 1922.

      For Smyrna, it was the beginning of the end.

      Large numbers of refugees from the countryside had already descended
      on Smyrna and the Turkish army was augmented by a marauding mob of
      ill-disciplined irregulars, who soon embarked on a campaign of murder,
      plunder and rape. The Turks deliberately set fire to the Armenian
      Quarter and the blaze engulfed the entire city, propelling an
      estimated 500,000 refugees to the quayside. To compound the tragedy,
      the crews of the warships offshore, bound by their neutrality and
      their governments' cynical desires to befriend the new Turkish regime,
      did nothing to help.

      Starving and helpless, the refugees were at the mercy of the Turks,
      who robbed and raped with impunity. Corpses bobbed in the harbour and
      women gave birth on the filthy pavements. It was a portrayal of hell
      that contrasted bitterly with Smyrna's years of easy prosperity.

      Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Into the maelstrom stepped the
      foremost hero of Paradise Lost. Asa Jennings was a diminutive, devout
      Methodist minister from New York, who worked for Smyrna's
      YMCA. Appalled by the atrocities unfolding before his eyes, he bullied
      and bluffed an armada of Greek ships to sail to the rescue. Together
      with an American doctor, Esther Lovejoy, Jennings oversaw the
      evacuation, saving countless thousands of people from death. Their
      gallant efforts stand in stark contrast to the record of Mark Bristol,
      the American high commissioner in Constantinople, who denied the
      genocide, declaring the Turks to be "fine fellows".


      Fans of Giles Milton won't need to be reminded that he excels in
      seeking out lesser-known yet pivotal events of the past and relating
      the tales through the lives of unusual characters, be they medieval
      nutmeg traders or Caucasian samurai adventurers. Like 2004's White
      Gold, which revealed the extent of the white slave trade in Africa in
      the 18th century, Paradise Lost - brilliantly researched from official
      and eye-witness accounts and grippingly written - casts a wider net.

      When a crisis of international proportions threatens, it is of concern
      to the entire world and should not be left to a few resolute
      individuals to solve.
      General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”

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        smyrna , now "izmir" ,
        turks changed city's and turks name.
        alot of church's changed to mosque . but know there are churchs in turkey . home church and hall . near my house one of and ı have a lot friend.

        ps: sorry is not topic - my words

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          Originally posted by psikokemal View Post
          smyrna , now "izmir" ,
          turks changed city's and turks name.
          alot of church's changed to mosque . but know there are churchs in turkey . home church and hall . near my house one of and ı have a lot friend.

          ps: sorry is not topic - my words
          well, I'm a person who lived in Izmir for 10 years, and there was a church, right down the street where we lived.
          If you do know yourself around Izmir, you'll know Göztepe, and ask anyone there about the street with the church, they'll show ya.

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            Originally posted by konachan View Post
            well, I'm a person who lived in Izmir for 10 years, and there was a church, right down the street where we lived.
            If you do know yourself around Izmir, you'll know Göztepe, and ask anyone there about the street with the church, they'll show ya.
            Early 1930s photo - Derelict church (Armenian?) in a destroyed part of Izmir.
            Later in the 1930s there was an International Trade Fair held in Izmir and most of the ruined parts ofthetown were demolished to make way for a park to house it. So I don't know if this church is still standing.
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              The "St. Stephen" Armenian church in Smyrna.
              Attached Files
              Plenipotentiary meow!

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                Another Armenian church in Smyrna.
                Attached Files
                Plenipotentiary meow!

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                  What happened to the Armenians of Izmir? They could not see Russia from their houses! What was done to them?

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                    Originally posted by TomServo View Post
                    What happened to the Armenians of Izmir? They could not see Russia from their houses! What was done to them?
                    I don't know.
                    I didn't even know that Izmir had any significant Armenian population.
                    The greek population went to greece during the population exchange.
                    The only native non-muslims I've met in Izmir are J-ws and they have their own district and such, thought many of them left for Israel some time ago.

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