Greece and the West
Under the various reigns of Eleutherios Venizelos(1864-1936), Greece adopted a more independent foreign policy. Venizelos formed alliances with neighboring Christian states and liberated Macedonia, Crete, and Epirus in the Balkan Wars. The peak of Greece, solidly allied with the Western powers and free to pursue her interests, occurred during the first World War. The British offered Greece a portion of Asia Minor in exchange for entering the war against Germany.
As Greece proceeded to liberate Asia Minor, the Italians armed Mustafa Kemal's forces. The French followed the Italians, and following the fall of Venizelos, both Great Britain and the United States turned their backs on Greece. The result was the genocide and mass slaughter of Greeks in Asia Minor from Smyrna to the region of Pontus. Greeks were ethnically cleansed from Eastern Thrace as well.
Photos - Christian Genocide
The Turkish motto: "Kil all Christians" - "Turkey for the Turks"
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Christians forced by the Turks to march to the desert, to die. |
Deportation of Christians. |
Christians being deported to the desert. |
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Christians being deported to the desert. |
Christians being deported to the desert. |
A Christian woman and her child being deported. |
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Christians being deported. |
Tents of Christians being deported. |
Christian families being deported. |
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Christian men being deported to the interior of Asia Minor. |
Hellenes from Pontos in a Turkish labour battalion. Few survived. |
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Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
CHAPTER XXII
"And now the Young Turks, who had adopted so many of Abdul Hamid's ideas, also made his Armenian policy their own. Their passion for Turkifying the nation seemed to demand logically the extermination of all Christians---Greeks, Syrians, and Armenians. Much as they admired the Mohammedan conquerors of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they stupidly believed that these great warriors had made one fatal mistake, for they had had it in their power completely to obliterate the Christian populations and had neglected to do so."
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