You think these events belong to distant history, but most of you do not know that Muslims were slaughtering and expelling millions of Christians until 1922, that is, until about 100 years ago, events very fresh in the memories of Greeks and Armenians, with survivors recounting what they experienced even today. For the mass extermination and genocide of the Greeks and the Armenians from Anatolia, the Turkish authorities used the most terrible and barbaric plans: they looted, raped, burned entire villages, tortured, mutilated, slaughtered, burned, and even buried alive men, women, children, elders, and turned extensive Greek Christian communities that until then flourished and radiated their cultural brilliance throughout the East into vast cemeteries. In Turkey, Islamizations were methodical with the establishment of special orphanages, where orphaned Greek and Armenian children were gathered, whose parents had been slaughtered or expelled from their own homes and ancestral land, or children who were forcibly abducted from their parents' hands. In these orphanages' young inmates, pure Muslim and Turkish education was provided, which inevitably led to their Islamization. This exact role was played by the orphanage of Panormos, which was founded at the suggestion and instruction of the German general Liman von Sanders. Another method of Islamization was the forced and violent settlement of 5-10 Greek families in compact Turkish villages, from where any exit and communication with Greek populations was prohibited. Senator Damat Ferit Pasha (former Grand Vizier) reveals the following in the session of the Turkish Senate on October 22, 1918: "The annihilation of the Christian populations is attributable as a crime to the Committee of Union and Progress, and it was a crime committed without any reason. The populations were forced to leave under threat and violence and were mercilessly exterminated… The total number of Ottoman subjects deported in this way amounts to 550,000 souls; I fear, however, that this number is lower than the actual one." Furthermore, Valide Edip Hanım, one of the most distinguished journalists in Turkey, writes in the newspaper "Vakit" (October 22, 1918): "We drove away our Greek subjects and did everything to uproot them, as we did with the Armenians, and for this purpose we used methods resembling those of the Middle Ages. The theory of forced Islamization became the cause of a criminal tragedy in the hands of robbers and murderers. Governors, prefects, officials, endowed with absolute power by the Committee, cast upon the shoulders of the innocent Turkish element the entire burden of the unspeakable atrocities." And the Turkish newspaper "Akam" wrote the following: "The Ottoman government committed these unspeakable crimes, and for this reason the government bears full responsibility…" The "Death Marches" of the Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians were one of the most horrific aspects of the Genocide, carried out by the Kemalist forces and the Young Turks. They found a way to make themselves the most barbarious people in history. During these marches, thousands of Greeks and Armenians, mainly women, children, and the elderly, were forced to leave their homes and walk for hundreds of kilometers under inhumane conditions, usually through mountains and deserts, with little or no food, water, or shelter. These deportations were ostensibly for "relocation" purposes, but they were in fact designed to lead to mass death through exhaustion, starvation, disease, and exposure. It was a planned Genocide. Simple as that. This is how a real Genocide looks like. That's how the pseudo-nation that is called Turkey was created. Only 100 years ago. Homer Pavlos