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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. x \ APE: (BIS a INDEX. Page 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 (sf PERSECUTIONS 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 + irreaimé,

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