SEPTEMBER 14 commemorates the destruction of indigenous Greek communities in Asia Minor (#Turkey) from 1914-1923 and the culmination of the #GreekGenocide. #NeverForget
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GREEK GENOCIDE RESOURCE CENTER
Between 1914-1923, the Ottoman Empire (today Turkey) under two successive regimes, carried out
a systematic and violent campaign of extermination against its native Greek subjects.
The Greek Genocide (or Ottoman Greek Genocide) refers to the systematic extermination of the native Greek (Rûm) subjects of the Ottoman Empire before, during and after World War I (1914-1923). It was instigated by two successive governments of the Ottoman Empire; the İttihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti (Committee of Union and Progress or CUP) also known as the Young Turks and the Turkish Nationalist movement under the command of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. It included massacres, forced relocations and death marches, summary expulsions, boycotts, rape, forced conversion to Islam, conscription into labor battalions, arbitrary executions and destruction of Christian Orthodox cultural, historical and religious monuments. It is likely that the victim toll of the Greek Genocide was somewhere in the vicinity of 1 – 1.5 million.
