During the Battle of Marash, Dr. Mabel Elliott helped lead thousands of Armenian refugees from Marash 75 miles across the Taurus mountains on foot during a snowstorm. Their choice was to leave or risk massacre by the Turks. > amzn.to/4mEJTFB

Did the Kemalists sell the bodies of Greek and Armenian Genocide victims for industrial use? Read the 1924 newsreports: www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/ov...

New release chronicling the life of Mabel E. Elliott (1881-1968), an American physician who cared for Greek and Armenian refugees and orphans during and after the Ottoman-era genocides. Available at Amazon > amzn.to/3VnYie1

Three books and a film about the #SmyrnaHolocaust worth considering. View more: www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/bi...

At the age of 13, Panayiotis Nikolaidis was separated from his 5 brothers, his sister and mother at #Smyrna in September 1922. He never saw them again. His father was murdered by the Turks. View his testimony as told by his grand-daughter: www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/qu...

The final phase of the #GreekGenocide took place at Smyrna (Tr: İzmir) in September 1922 when Kemalist forces entered the city and took part in an orgy of looting, rape and massacre that targeted the city's Christian population, primarily Greeks & Armenians. They then burnt the city to the ground.

Syria's Minister of Culture recently sparked outrage by appearing with an Islamic chanter inside one of the capital’s Greek (Rûm) Orthodox churches. The chants disregarded the sanctity of the church, crossed boundaries of respect and undermined the intended symbolism of interfaith solidarity.

German General Otto Liman von Sanders was the commander of the Ottoman Fifth Army. He was arrested in 1919 and held at Malta for 6 months as a war criminal for sanctioning crimes including the massacre of Greeks and Armenians. More: www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/ov...

One of the latest, delightful trends on TikTok wants young men and women from Turkey to post the results of their DNA test. In most cases, a high percentage of Greek ancestry emerges, which dozens of Greek users of the medium comment on with the phrase “welcome, our brother”.

The massacre of Greeks at Aydin (Gr: Αϊδίνιο) occurred in June 1919. According to a French source, some 1,500-2,000 Greeks were massacred. > www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/ov...

Usak Kindergarten, B Group 1921 [Β Ομάς, Νηπιαγωγείου Ουσάκ 1921]. Uşak is located 200km east of #Smyrna and was home to approximately 3,000 Greeks and 1,000 Armenians before the genocide.

A monument in the central square of Istanbul honours the formation of the Turkish republic (1923) and includes two Soviet military men, K. Voroshilov and M. Frunze. The Soviets provided the Kemalists vital support during the second phase of the genocide. Mentioned in our new book: amzn.to/4fMpmft

The student music group of Balya [Estudiantine de Balia] comprising 2 guitars, 5 mandolins, 3 violins and a double bass. The conductor (far left) is Konstantinos Zafiropoulos. In 1911, the #YoungTurks weren't happy with the music groups and banned them. www.greek-genocide.net

Panagiotis Nordas (standing bottom right) with the scout group of Balya. Nordas was a law graduate who worked at the Economic Commissionership of #Balya as a supervisor and formed the Balya scout group. He died in Greece in 1960. There were 6,000 Greeks living in Balya prior to the genocide.

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” contains close to $100 billion to build a new series of “detention facilities” all across America. When Adolf Hitler seized power in Germany, the first thing he built wasn’t a tank or a warship. It was a “detention facility.” > www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/...

The following testimony was submitted by the great-grandchild of a witness and is based on oral family history passed down from witnesses and survivors. > www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/qu...

The belltower of a Greek Orthodox church (19th century) converted into a mosque. Location: Koronixa (today Arpali). Source: www.virtual-genocide-memorial.de/region/the-b...

The pillage of Foça (Gr: Φώκαια, Phocaea) and the massacre of over 100 Greeks in Jun 1914 occurred during the early phase of the #GreekGenocide. While the death toll was on a relatively small scale, the plan to force Greeks to flee en masse was accomplished. > www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/ov...

The Greek Relief Committee (GRC), otherwise known as the Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor was formed during World War 1 in direct response to the #GreekGenocide. The organization was based in New York and was operational between 1917 to 1921. > www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/ov...

A scene from the commemorative ceremony for the May 19 day of remembrance for the Pontic Greek victims of the Greek Genocide. The photo was taken in front of the Ecumenical memorial in Berlin which was erected in memory of Armenian, Greek and Assyrian victims of the Ottoman Genocide (1912-1922).

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

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 commemoration for the Greek victims from the Pontus region. > www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/ov...

Antonios Gavriilidis was a tobacco merchant from Bafra in northern Turkey. During the genocide he was relocated by the Kemalists to Malatya, 600km deep in the interior. Realising his life was in danger, he along with four men planned an escape. Read his story: www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/qu...

Not Even My Name is the account of Sano Halo who, at the age of 10, survived a death march during the #GreekGenocide. www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/bi...

Pelopidas Epifanidis, a Greek doctor from Samsun was hanged on Sep 8, 1921 by order of the Independence Tribunals at Amasya (aka Courts of Independence) which issued arbitrary death sentences to 100's of Greeks. Among them were many influential citizens such as publishers, mayors, doctors, etc.

Alexandros Anthopoulos was from Samsun. He and his brothers were wealthy merchants involved in importing and exporting goods such as tobacco and minerals. He was massacred at Merzifon in 1921 by Kemalist brigand Feridunoğlu Osman Ağa and his cut-throats. Read: www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/qu...

In 1921, Efthimios Couzinos of Alaçam, a student of the American College at Merzifon, hid under the kitchen floor of his school for 515 days to avoid being caught by the Kemalists who were committing large scale massacres in the region. Read his story: www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/bi...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

Feridunoğlu Osman Ağa was a brigand and Kemalist military commander responsible for the murder of a vast number of Greeks during the #GreekGenocide. Osman roamed the Black Sea region with his band of ‘cut-throats’ and was responsible for numerous massacres and deportations of Greeks & Armenians.

Samsun is a city located in northern Turkey along the Black Sea shoreline. During the #GreekGenocide, Greeks from Samsun and the surrounding region were deported in three waves: in 1916/17, 1921 and 1922. Before the genocide, Greeks in Samsun numbered ~80,000 (65% of the total population).

Simeon Ananiades (1902-1921) was born in Samsun and was a student of Anatolia College at Merzifon in Ottoman Turkey, a college founded by Americans in 1887. He was hanged by the Kemalists in 1921 because the sports club he was a member of was deemed a "revolutionary club."

Tamama: The Missing Girl of Pontos is the English translation of a novel originally written in Greek by author Georgios Andreadis. The story revolves around a young girl who was lost during the relocation of Greeks during the #GreekGenocide.

Ahmed Djemal, the Minister of Marine, was the third member in the Committee of Union and Progress triumvirate. Djemal was regarded as the cruelest of the three. In 1919, he was sentenced to death in absentia by Turkish Court Martial for his role in the genocide.

On the 24th of April 1915, some 270 prominent Armenian intellectuals were arrested in Constantinople. They were subsequently tortured and massacred. What followed was a series of death marches and massacres of the Armenian people that shocked the world. #ArmenianGenocide

Easter 1914. Parishioners in the courtyard of the church of Saint Konstantinos which was located in the Greek neighbourhood of Develi in the #Kayseri region of Asia Minor (today Türkiye). Historically, Develi was called #Everek. Just prior to the genocide, there were 2,085 Greeks living there.

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. View paperback: amzn.to/440MQKZ

Today we pay our respects to the victims of the Greek Genocide from the region of Eastern Thrace. During Easter of 1914 (April 6), Ottoman authorities intensified their persecution of Greeks in the region. The Greeks of Eastern Thrace refer to this day as #BlackEaster.

Konstantinos Koidakis was Metropolitan of Gallipoli and Madytos and witnessed the relocation of his flock from Gallipoli (Eastern Thrace) to the interior of Asia Minor (Turkey) in 1915. His testimony: www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/qu...

The Greek Genocide began in the region of Eastern Thrace. Methods involved boycotting of Greek businesses, looting, murder, deportation, extortion and the pillaging of towns, villages and places of worship. #greekgenocide Read more: www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/ov...

The family of Anastasios Kosti in traditional dress, Sille 1906. Sille (Gr: Sylli, Σύλλη) is located 10km NW of Konya in the southern region of Anatolia. Up until the mid-18th c., it was a Greek-speaking Christian town of some 6,000 inhabitants. There were over 30 Christian churches in Sille.

The ceremonial laying of the foundation stone for the Kyriakides gymnasium. Nevşehir 21 Jul 1913. In the middle of the photo, four boys are standing on the parallel bars, one boy is suspended. Nevşehir (Gr: Neapolis) is situated 80km SW of #Kayseri in the Cappadocia region of #AsiaMinor (Türkiye).

The life and work of Mabel E. Elliott (1881-1968) will soon be published in a book. Elliott was an American physician who cared for Greek and Armenian refugees and orphans during and after the Ottoman-era genocides. Her most significant work was conducted at Marash, Nicomedia, Yerevan and Greece.

The Bank of Athens building in Smyrna (today İzmir), 1905. The writing at the top of the building, in Greek says: "Τράπεζα Αθηνών" (Bank of Athens). Just underneath it to the left, in French: "Banque d'Athenes."

The final class of the Central Girls' School of Ayvalik (Gr: Kydoniés). Seated left is writer and artist Photis Kontoglou (1895-1965) who is considered the finest icon painters of modern Greece. Ayvalik had a population of around 30,000, almost all Greeks. www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/ov...

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

The family of Georgos Akritidis of Trabzon (Gr: Trapezunta) in Jerusalem, 1900. Akritidis was born in Lykast, Kromni in the region of #Pontus in #AsiaMinor in 1838. He moved to #Trabzon at a young age and became involved in construction and later in the production and trade of beverages.

Trump and Musk share alarming similarities with Nazi groups. Read the latest by Genocide Watch: www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/...

Malala Yousafzai has returned to her hometown in Pakistan, 13 years after she was shot in the head by the Taliban

Başköy was a flourishing village situated among plush greenery and sycamore trees 150km SE of Istanbul. Before 1922 the majority of its 3,500 residents were Greek. The Kemalists deported them to the interior then pillaged and burnt it down. Michail Angelou documented its destruction: amzn.to/4buWMxV

Aivaly. Café Kanélo. Photo: C.D. Contaxis-Aivaly (Asie Mineur).