Greek Genocide
Greek News
How Ernest Hemingway Witnessed the Greek Genocide
Ernest Hemingway witnessed at first hand as a journalist the displacement of the Greeks from their ancestral homelands of Asia Minor.
Greek News
The Extermination of Pontic Greeks was a Genocide
The Greek genocide and the Pontic genocide instigated by the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish national movement is a dark moment for Greece
Diaspora
The Incredible Stories of Thousands of Greek Orphans Taken Abroad
Tens of thousands of ethnically-Greek orphans -- or, more often, children who were simply without fathers, due to war or other causes -- were taken abroad
Australia
The Ethnic Cleansing of Greeks from Gallipoli in 1915
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Thousands of Greeks living on the Gallipoli peninsula in modern-day Turkey were victims of the ethnic cleansing and genocide of minorities, particularly Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians, in Asia Minor. Credit: Public DomainThousands of Greeks living on the Gallipoli peninsula...
Greece
September 6, 1955: the Violent Istanbul Pogrom Against Greeks
In 1955, the Greek population of the city of Istanbul were the victims of a heinous pogrom that resulted in the suffering and death of many.
Greek News
The Greek Genocide as Recorded in US Navy Diaries
The Smyrna Catastrophe and other acts of the Greek Genocide were witnessed by US Navy officers; their diaries document the atrocities.
Europe
The Karamanlides: Orthodox, Turkish-Speaking People Native to Anatolia
A group of people native to Anatolia, the Karamanlides, are believed by many to be Turkish speaking Greeks. They used a dialect of Turkish in combination with the Greek alphabet.
Starting as far back as 1071, Turks began settling in...
Australia
Greeks, Cypriots of Australia Call on PM Morrison to Recognize Genocide
The Greek and Cypriot communities in Australia urged Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday to recognize the genocide carried out against Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks and other Christian minorities by the Ottomans in the early 20th century.
In a letter to...
Greek News
The Nationalist Turk Who Discovered His Greek Roots
Ibrahim Yaylali was a nationalist Turk who discovered his Greek roots and made a 180-degree turn, becoming an activist for human rights
Australia
Australia’s Parliament Calls for the Recognition of the Greek Genocide
Six speakers of Australia's Parliament approved earlier in the week the nation's first-ever motion for the government to officially acknowledge the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides.
The motion's success with the Australian Parliament's House of Representatives is due to the...