Greek Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
ERSECUTIONS OF THE GREEK POPULATION
IN TURKEY SINCE THE BEGINNING
OF THE EUROPEAN WAR
According to Official Reports of
Hellenic Diplomatic and
Consular Agents.
LONDON:
Constable & Co. Ltd.
1918.
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INDEX.
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INTRODUCTION 1
PART PREPARATORY EFFORTS FOR THE EXTERMINATION OF HELLEN-
ISM IN TURKEY.
CrapreR I.—ABOLITION OF PRIVILEGES 7
« TLRecrurtixe oF Curistiaxs 10
IIL.—Regtisitions avo Levies WW
. IV.—Computsory CONVERSIONS . 7
+ VCriMes 19
VI.—Sratisticat Tapes 28
PART Il.—DEPORTATION EN MASSE 28
CHAPTER I,—GattiroLt . 30
» IL~Tresizonn 33
+ THL~Samsus aM
IV.—KerassunD. . 38
» V.—Atvaut . 39
» VI—Conpition oF THE RerucEes al
» VIL—Staristics oF THE DEPoRTATIONS 1
(sfPERSECUTIONS OF THE GREEK POPULAPEON
IN TURKEY SINCE THE BEGINNING |”.
OF THE EUROPEAN WAR.
Introduction.
anny of the European
but the contimation of a settled plan for the estermization of Hellenism
HE. anti-[ellemie persecutions perpetrated in Turkey since the beg
War a
that had been carried ont since HE by the Yeung. Turks
In onder to realize their aim and motives, and te make whoever is unacquainted with
matters Turkish anderstand the manner in which it has been sought to destroy unredeemed"
Hellenism, it is important, betore wndertaking the narrative of the persecutions initiated at
the end of INH, to east a retrespertive glance aver the facts of the preceding period. Thus
a proof will be acquired of the revitahsing and maturing of a plin previously: conceived to
exterminate Hellenism in Turkey
Hf one examines the events that took place in Pirkey alter the establishment of the Con
stitutional régime, one iy convinced that if was hardly: possible that the course of history would
be altered by the deposition of an autocrat and the advent of a so-called parliamentary Govern:
ment. The first acts of the new régime show that, far from thinking of moditying the situation
the Young Turks wished te make a pace revolution, in order to anticipate the intervention
ofthe Great Powers, and to be free to fullil their pregramme according te which the agglomers
ion of nationalities that had hitherto compascad Furkey was ty make way for a national state
compact and united. Their dream was the creation of a ‘hurkey nationally: ene—and poli
tically and economically: independent
For this very reason the constitutional regine was, froin the outset, considered as a danger
to the diverse nationalities living wi Turkey Lhe realsation of the Young Turkish dream
presupposed the practice of free institutions ter at this price alone could the new régime hope
to enlist the sympathy of the Christian races and of the Great Powers, But the enormeus
majority of the Turkish people had not had the preparation necessary’ to its acceptance
Therefore the Young Turk leaders returned necessarily and naturally to the Turkish
methods of government by force, thanks to which they could keep their held upon the subject
races,
This tendency, immediately manifested by deeds, was very correctly explained by M
René Pinon in his pamphlet Fur pe and Veung-Tiokey. ~The ideas of equality,” he wrote
{p. 128), “were pat out merely to honewink Furape, and were now but a convenient pret st
to strip the Christians of their ancient privileges originally granted to compensate for inequality
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