Photos- Hellenic Genocite

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

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 Greeks 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 / Greeks of Chios was an anticipation of the Hellenic / Greek Genocide, which engulfed all Greeks 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.

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Ambassador Morgenthau's Story CHAPTER XXIV: "In fact, Bedri Bey, the Prefect of Police at Constantinople, himself told one of my secretaries that the Turks had expelled the Greeks so successfully that they had decided to apply the same method to all the other races in the empire." ____________ The Blight of Asia CHAPTER V: "They were rapidly developing a civilization that would ultimately have approached the classic days of Ionia. A general boycott was declared against them, for one thing, and posters calling on the Mussulmans to exterminate them were posted in the schools and mosques. The Turkish newspapers also published violent articles exciting their readers to persecution and massacre." Handbook of WAR Facts and Peace Problems CHAPTER III: "Some evacuated places were prosperous cities like Cydonia (Aivali) with 30,000 inhabitants. Many of the evacuated Christian villages, after being plundered, were destroyed by fire. The people were not allowed to take anything with them, not even warm clothing." The Blight of Asia CHAPTER V: "A series of sporadic murders began at Smyrna as at Saloniki, the list in each morning’s paper numbering from twelve to twenty. Peasants going into their vineyards to work were shot down from behind trees and rocks by the Turks. One peculiarly atrocious case comes to mind: Two young men, who had recently finished their studies in a high-grade school, went out to a vineyard to pass the night in the coula (house in the country). During the night they were called to the door and chopped down with axes. Finally the Rayas, to the number of several hundred thousand, were all driven off from their farms or out of their villages. Some were deported into the interior, but many managed to escape by means of caiques to the neighboring islands, whence they spread over Greece. A few thousand Turks destroyed the region, which the Greeks were developing and rendering fertile, from Pergamus clear down the coast to Lidja. I went over the whole region and took photographs of the ruined farmhouses and villages. Goats had been turned into flourishing, carefully tended vineyards and acres of roots had been dug up for fuel." ____________________

Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
CHAPTER XXIV:
"In fact, Bedri Bey, the Prefect of Police at Constantinople, himself told one of my secretaries that the Turks had expelled the Greeks so successfully that they had decided to apply the same method to all the other races in the empire."
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The Blight of Asia
CHAPTER V:
"They were rapidly developing a civilization that would ultimately have approached the classic days of Ionia. A general boycott was declared against them, for one thing, and posters calling on the Mussulmans to exterminate them were posted in the schools and mosques. The Turkish newspapers also published violent articles exciting their readers to persecution and massacre."

Handbook of WAR Facts and Peace Problems
CHAPTER III:
"Some evacuated places were prosperous cities like Cydonia (Aivali) with 30,000 inhabitants. Many of the evacuated Christian villages, after being plundered, were destroyed by fire. The people were not allowed to take anything with them, not even warm clothing."

The Blight of Asia
CHAPTER V:
"A series of sporadic murders began at Smyrna as at Saloniki, the list in each morning’s paper numbering from twelve to twenty. Peasants going into their vineyards to work were shot down from behind trees and rocks by the Turks. One peculiarly atrocious case comes to mind: Two young men, who had recently finished their studies in a high-grade school, went out to a vineyard to pass the night in the coula (house in the country). During the night they were called to the door and chopped down with axes. Finally the Rayas, to the number of several hundred thousand, were all driven off from their farms or out of their villages. Some were deported into the interior, but many managed to escape by means of caiques to the neighboring islands, whence they spread over Greece. A few thousand Turks destroyed the region, which the Greeks were developing and rendering fertile, from Pergamus clear down the coast to Lidja. I went over the whole region and took photographs of the ruined farmhouses and villages. Goats had been turned into flourishing, carefully tended vineyards and acres of roots had been dug up for fuel."
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Photos - Christian Genocide
The Turkish motto: "Kil all Christians" - "Turkey for the Turks"

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Christian leaders hanged. One of the first steps of the Genocides perpetrated by the Turks.	Christian leaders hanged. One of the first steps of the Genocides perpetrated by the Turks.	Turkish soldiers proudly posing with bodies of their Christian victims. The Christians were like animals to be hunted.

Turks seem to rejoice watching a massacredhristian family. Even babies were tortured and massacred.	Heads of Christian, traditionally treated like trophies by the Turks.	Christian children massacred in the desert.

Piles of skulls of Christians massacred by the Turks.	Skulls and heads of massacred Christians.	A Christian child, another victim of Turkish policy of extermination.

Christian children. Dead and left to die.	A Christian child lies dead in front of a house.	Christian children. Dead and left to die.
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story CHAPTER XXII: "We must realize that the basic fact underlying the Turkish mentality is its utter contempt for all other races. A fairly insane pride is the element that largely explains this strange human species. The common term applied by the Turk to the Christian is "dog," and in his estimation this is no mere rhetorical figure; he actually looks upon his European neighbours as far less worthy of consideration than his own domestic animals."	Handbook of War Facts and Problems Chapter III
	"In Turkey, there was a large and flourishing Greek population,. influential and rich. The Turks feared that the European powers might decide to allow Greece to annex the parts of Macedonia and Thrace that had a majority of Greeks---nearly a million in Thrace alone---and also perhaps the islands and rich southern shores of Asia Minor, peopled by Greeks from time immemorial. The "new Turks" in 1913 decided that these Greeks must be moved, impoverished, killed, or put out of the way. The purely Germanic scheme of wholesale deportation combined with robbery and destruction of all property was adopted. The work began in Asia Minor ----nearly a year before the war."
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