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Focusing on the persecution of native Greek communities in Ottoman Turkey between 1914-1923. http://greek-genocide.net
July 1923: 8,000 Anatolian Greeks were seen hiding in caves near Aleppo, Syria. These were the Greeks who survived the death marches to the Turkish interior during the genocide and were evacuated and cared for by the Near East Relief.
www.greek-genocide.net
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Greek men of military age were denied passage out of #Turkey in Sep 1922 with their expelled families, regardless of their combatant status. They were marched into the interior where they were tortured before the majority were massacred. Over 100,000 Greek men met their fate in this way.
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Joice Nankivell Loch was an Australian humanitarian who worked to help #GreekGenocide survivors in the town of Ouranoupoli near Mount Athos after they were expelled from #Turkey. She and her husband set up schools, provided medical assistance & helped them build back their lives.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Jackie Coogan (1914-1984) was an American actor best known for his role as Uncle Fester in the 1960's US television series The Addams Family. At a young age, Coogan became personally involved with the collection of vital supplies for humanitarian relief for the survivors of the Ottoman-era genocides
November 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Part of a group of 42 Greek orphans received into Marsovan orphanage, May 1919. All scabious cases. Picture taken after first bath and application of medicine. Part of the Compton collection of photos.
October 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
During the Battle of Marash, Dr. Mabel Elliott helped lead thousands of Armenian refugees from Marash 75 miles across the Taurus mountains on foot during a snowstorm. Their choice was to leave or risk massacre by the Turks.

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October 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Did the Kemalists sell the bodies of Greek and Armenian Genocide victims for industrial use?

Read the 1924 newsreports: www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/ov...
September 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
New release chronicling the life of Mabel E. Elliott (1881-1968), an American physician who cared for Greek and Armenian refugees and orphans during and after the Ottoman-era genocides.

Available at Amazon > amzn.to/3VnYie1
September 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Three books and a film about the #SmyrnaHolocaust worth considering.

View more: www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/bi...
September 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
At the age of 13, Panayiotis Nikolaidis was separated from his 5 brothers, his sister and mother at #Smyrna in September 1922. He never saw them again. His father was murdered by the Turks.

View his testimony as told by his grand-daughter: www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/qu...
September 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
German General Otto Liman von Sanders was the commander of the Ottoman Fifth Army. He was arrested in 1919 and held at Malta for 6 months as a war criminal for sanctioning crimes including the massacre of Greeks and Armenians.

More: www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/ov...
August 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The massacre of Greeks at Aydin (Gr: Αϊδίνιο) occurred in June 1919. According to a French source, some 1,500-2,000 Greeks were massacred.

> www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/ov...
July 31, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Usak Kindergarten, B Group 1921 [Β Ομάς, Νηπιαγωγείου Ουσάκ 1921].
Uşak is located 200km east of #Smyrna and was home to approximately 3,000 Greeks and 1,000 Armenians before the genocide.
July 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A monument in the central square of Istanbul honours the formation of the Turkish republic (1923) and includes two Soviet military men, K. Voroshilov and M. Frunze. The Soviets provided the Kemalists vital support during the second phase of the genocide. Mentioned in our new book:
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July 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The student music group of Balya [Estudiantine de Balia] comprising 2 guitars, 5 mandolins, 3 violins and a double bass. The conductor (far left) is Konstantinos Zafiropoulos. In 1911, the #YoungTurks weren't happy with the music groups and banned them.
www.greek-genocide.net
July 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Panagiotis Nordas (standing bottom right) with the scout group of Balya. Nordas was a law graduate who worked at the Economic Commissionership of #Balya as a supervisor and formed the Balya scout group. He died in Greece in 1960. There were 6,000 Greeks living in Balya prior to the genocide.
July 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” contains close to $100 billion to build a new series of “detention facilities” all across America.

When Adolf Hitler seized power in Germany, the first thing he built wasn’t a tank or a warship. It was a “detention facility.”
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July 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The following testimony was submitted by the great-grandchild of a witness and is based on oral family history passed down from witnesses and survivors.
> www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/qu...
June 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The belltower of a Greek Orthodox church (19th century) converted into a mosque. Location: Koronixa (today Arpali).

Source: www.virtual-genocide-memorial.de/region/the-b...
June 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The pillage of Foça (Gr: Φώκαια, Phocaea) and the massacre of over 100 Greeks in Jun 1914 occurred during the early phase of the #GreekGenocide. While the death toll was on a relatively small scale, the plan to force Greeks to flee en masse was accomplished.
> www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/ov...
June 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The Greek Relief Committee (GRC), otherwise known as the Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor was formed during World War 1 in direct response to the #GreekGenocide. The organization was based in New York and was operational between 1917 to 1921.

> www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/ov...
June 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A scene from the commemorative ceremony for the May 19 day of remembrance for the Pontic Greek victims of the Greek Genocide. The photo was taken in front of the Ecumenical memorial in Berlin which was erected in memory of Armenian, Greek and Assyrian victims of the Ottoman Genocide (1912-1922).
May 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
After Mustafa Kemal's death in 1938, Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas renamed Apostolos Pavlos Street in Thessaloniki to Kemal Ataturk Street. He also used public funds to buy the home (which M. Kemal was supposedly born in) and gifted it to Turkey. This and more in our new book: amzn.to/43nDx5I
May 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
From 1914-1923, the Greek (Rûm) subjects of the Ottoman Empire were subjected to a systematic and cumulative campaign of extermination. In 1994, the Hellenic Parliament assigned May 19 as a day of commemoration for the Greek victims from the Pontus region.
> www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/ov...
May 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Antonios Gavriilidis was a tobacco merchant from Bafra in northern Turkey. During the genocide he was relocated by the Kemalists to Malatya, 600km deep in the interior. Realising his life was in danger, he along with four men planned an escape. Read his story: www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/qu...
May 18, 2025 at 1:34 AM