Hellenes of Asia Minor, killed by the Turks.
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Handbook of WAR Facts and Peace 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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