When capt. of Japanese cargo ship took on Christians at Smyrna in '22, the Kemalists threatened to kill them. The capt issued a warning: if even one hair follicle of the refugees were touched, he would consider it insult to the Japanese flag. Read story: greek-genocide.net/index.php/bibl…

Smyrna Holocaust timeline, #10. 17-19 September 1922. View entire timeline: greek-genocide.net/index.php/over…

During the #SmyrnaHolocaust, Christians committed suicide in the Smyrna waters to avoid the cruel Turkish guards or the fire. After the fire was extinguished, Turks could be seen fishing for loot (jewelry, money) from the corpses laying under water. greek-genocide.net

In Nov 1922, US missionary Susan Orvis witnessed 1,000 women and children from #Smyrna being walked to their deaths towards the interior of Turkey; women carrying babies in their arms, the majority barefooted. Read her testimony: greek-genocide.net/index.php/over…

Refugees aboard US destroyers during the #SmyrnaHolocaust of Sep 1922. These were the lucky ones. The death toll at Smyrna was siginificant with 190,000 of the Smyrna population unaccounted for after the fire. More> greek-genocide.net/index.php/over…

In 1978, the government of Konstantinos Karamanlis banned the screening of the #GreekGenocide film "1922" due to pressure from the Turkish Foreign Ministry who complained that the film would ruin Greek-Turkish relations. Read more: greek-genocide.net/index.php/over…

Metropolitan Chrysostomos Kalafatis was the Metropolitan of #Smyrna from 1910-1914 and 1919-1922. On Sep 10, 1922, a day after Kemalist forces occupied Smyrna, Chrysostomos was handed over to a mob who subsequently tortured and murdered him. More: greek-genocide.net/index.php/over…

From 1913 to 1923, Turkey's rulers deported, killed, or otherwise persecuted staggering numbers of citizens in an attempt to preserve “Turkey for the Turks,” setting a modern precedent for how a regime can commit genocide. > greek-genocide.net/index.php/bibl…

Part of a group of 42 Greek orphans received at an orphanage at Marsovan (today Merzifon) in Turkey, May 1919. At one stage the orphanage housed 600 Greek and Armenian children who had become orphans due to the genocide. Source: Trustees of Anatolia College.

Nov 4, 1922. A scene from the evacuation of Greeks from Adrianople (today Edirne) in Eastern Thrace during the #GreekGenocide. After hearing that the Kemalists were to occupy E. Thrace, Greeks fled to avoid being massacred. More: greek-genocide.net/overview/docum…

Joice N. Loch (1887-1982) was an Australian humanitarian who helped #GreekGenocide survivors in the town of Ouranoupoli near Mount Athos. She and her husband set up schools for girls, provided medical assistance & helped the refugees rebuild their lives. > amzn.to/42aPXib

Greek pharmacist Michail Angelou of Küplü in Asia Minor described Başköy as a flourishing village situated among plush greenery. Out of a population of 3,500 living there, 2,000 were Greek. The village was pillaged and burned by the Kemalists. Read: amzn.to/4iuLUmd

Containing a selection of papers presented at The Genocide of the Christian Populations of the Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath (1908–1923) international conference, hosted by the Chair for Pontic Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. > amzn.to/3EtG7P9

The Greeks of Samsun were deported in three waves during the #GreekGenocide: 1916/17, 1921 and 1922. Before these deportations, Greeks in the region numbered ~80,000 and made up about 65% of the total population. greek-genocide.net/index.php/over…

In the same way that Jews hid from the Nazis in cupboards and cellars during the Jewish Holocaust, a young man named Efthimios Couzinos spent 515 days hiding from the Kemalists under the floor of his school during the #GreekGenocide. Read his story: greek-genocide.net/index.php/bibl…

Feridunoğlu Osman Ağa was a brigand and Kemalist military commander responsible for the murder of a vast number of Greeks during the #GreekGenocide. Read a list of atrocities committed: greek-genocide.net/index.php/over…

Not Even My Name is the account of Sano Halo who, at the age of 10, survived a death march during the #GreekGenocide. The story, which was was written by Sano's daughter Thea and has since been translated to Dutch, Icelandic and Greek. Available at Amazon: amzn.to/3GYPEia

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 remembrance for the victims from the Pontus region. > greek-genocide.net/index.php/over…

After Kemal's death in 1938, Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas renamed Apostolos Pavlos Street in Thessaloniki to Kemal Ataturk St. He also used public funds to buy the home (which Kemal was supposedly born in) and gifted it to Turkey. More in our new book: amzn.to/43nDx5I