Part of World War I, the Aftermath of World War I, and the Armenian genocide
Greek civilians mourn their dead relatives, Great Fire of Smyrna, 1922
Location
Ottoman Empire
Date
1913–1923
Target
Ottoman Greeks
Attack type
Deportation, mass murder, death march
Deaths
300,000–900,000[1]
Perpetrators
Ottoman Empire, Turkish National Movement
Motive
Anti-Greek sentiment, Turkification, Persecution of Eastern Orthodox Christians
Greek genocide
Background
Young Turk Revolution, Ottoman Greeks, Pontic Greeks, Ottoman Empire
The genocide
Labour Battalions, Death march, Massacre of Phocaea, Evacuation of Ayvalik, İzmit massacres, Samsun deportations, Amasya trials, Burning of Smyrna
Foreign aid and relief
Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor, American Committee for Relief in the Near East
Responsible parties
Young Turks or Committee of Union and Progress Three Pashas: Talat, Enver, Djemal Bahaeddin Şakir, Teskilati Mahsusa or Special Organization, Nureddin Pasha, Topal Osman, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
See also
Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), Greeks in Turkey, Population Exchange, Greek refugees, Armenian genocide, Sayfo, Istanbul trials of 1919–1920, Malta Tribunals
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Below is an outline of Wikipedia articles related to the Greek genocide and closely associated events[a] and explanatory articles.[b] The topical outline is accompanied by a chronological outline of events. References are provided for background and overview.
The Greek Genocide was the mass killings and deportations of Greeks in the Ottoman Empire by Turkish forces. It resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Greeks, including the extermination of Pontian and Anatolian Greeks, the destruction of Smyrna, and widespread ethnic cleansing in Greek areas of Asia Minor.[3]
The Greek and Armenian Genocides are considered part of the more extensive period of mass killings and ethnic cleansing of Christian populations in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th century. Both genocides were carried out by the Ottoman government and Turkish nationalist forces and involved mass killings, forced deportations, and population transfers. The events have been recognized as a genocide by numerous countries but have not been officially recognized by the Turkish government.[4][5]
^Sjöberg, Erik (2016). The Making of the Greek Genocide: Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe. Berghahn Books. p. 234. ISBN 978-1-78533-326-2. Activists tend to inflate the overall total of Ottoman Greek deaths, from the cautious estimates between 300,000 to 700,000...
^Morris, B., Ze’evi, D. (2019). The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924. Harvard University Press.
^Akçam, T. (2018). "The Making of the Greek Genocide: Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe. By Eric Sjöberg. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017. 255 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary". Slavic Review. 77 (2). Cambridge University Press: 503–504. doi:10.1017/slr.2018.151. ISSN 0037-6779. S2CID 166199078.
^Meichanetsidis, Vasileios Th (2015). "The Genocide of the Greeks of the Ottoman Empire, 1913–1923". Genocide Studies International. 9 (1): 104–173. doi:10.3138/gsi.9.1.06. JSTOR 26986016. S2CID 154870709.
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