The Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian genocide from the Muslim Turks happened 100 years ago in Asia Minor. You think these events belong to distant history, but our grandparents lived through these atrocities and were violently slaughtered or expelled from their ancestral lands. Genocide, persecutions and Turkification of the Greek element occurred earlier as well. The mass Islamizations and exterminatory persecutions of the 17th century are well known. However, after the proclamation of the Turkish Constitution of 1908, these phenomena, particularly the exterminatory persecutions of the Greek element, became methodical, systematic, and, above all, based on decisions and instructions from the central authority, the Turkish governments. Research has shown that the persecutions were planned and organized from above and had a universal character. 1. In the first period (1908-1912/13), the persecutions were carried out carefully and somewhat sporadically (murders, confiscations of properties, etc.), so as not to reveal the face of the New Turkey, which from then began implementing the program "Turkey for the Turks." 2. In the period 1912-1914, murders and destructions of Greek populations increased. Particularly after the March of 1914, mass persecutions and wholesale expulsions to Greece of entire Greek populations from Thrace and the coasts of Asia Minor intensified, under the pretext that the islands of Lesbos and Chios had been occupied by Greece. From this point, the program of the Young Turk Committee clearly began: on one hand, the economic exhaustion of the Greeks and, on the other, their expulsion or forced flight to Greece, in order to replace them with Ottomans from Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as from areas that passed to Serbia and Bulgaria. 3. The situation became unbearable during the period of World War I (1914-18), which was marked by beastly destructions of Greek populations with wholesale massacres, persecutions, burnings of entire cities and villages, and mass exiles of thousands of compatriots to the interior of Turkey. 4. The climax of the drama of the Asia Minor Hellenism, coincided with the Kemalist period (1919-1922), when the persecutions became more exterminatory and beastly. The Greek populations (and the Armenian ones) were not simply killed with knives and weapons, but died after horrific torments, unprecedented in human history. And not only men, but women and children, without distinction of age. In the Pontus region alone, 353,000 people were exterminated. In total, from the Hellenism of the East (Thrace, Asia Minor, Pontus), around 900,000 people were exterminated (1914-1924). 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. They literally copied the "Janissaries" from the Ottoman period. 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." 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. 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. And then they slaughtered Christians inside their homes, they looted, they raped and tortured. It was a planned Genocide. 3.5 million Christians in total. Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians. This is how a real Genocide looks like. That's how the pseudo-nation that is called Turkey was created. Only 100 years ago. If you want to support me in the effort I’m making, please consider becoming a subscriber to my X account for only $2. I write about the ancient, medieval, and modern history of Greece and what Christians went through in Asia Minor, Greece, and Cyprus because of Islam. Thank you very much to those of you who support me and read me. - Homer Pavlos

After the massacre of Chios in 1822, the Muslim Turk commander Vahit Pasha ordered the beheading of all the remaining Christian prisoners. He had their skulls stuffed with light straw. The next day he sent them to the Sultan, along with five loads of other heads and two loads of ears belonging to people of the lower classes. These were the "trophies of his victory." 52,000 Greek Christians were sold into slavery, and 42,000 men, children, and women were slaughtered. Young girls were raped publicly in the streets, and newlyweds in front of their husbands, who were then slaughtered. Others were raped in front of their parents, after which the men's genitals were cut off. Women over 40 were set on fire and left to burn alive. Pregnant women had their bellies ripped open and their fetuses pulled out, while small children were thrown forcefully against rocks. The frenzy of the Muslims was unprecedented. Many Turkish soldiers cut off the heads of Greek Christians and then licked their swords. With this act, they believed they would earn a place in paradise. Others were hanged from the island's trees for deterrence. Severed human limbs and corpses were scattered on the streets, while the sea had turned red from the blood. The smoke from the burning houses had covered all of Chios, while the flames made the night look like day. Several women from Chios preferred death over dishonor and slavery. They committed suicide by jumping off cliffs. Some were killed while defending their children, siblings, and husbands. Remember the date: 30 March 1822 If you want to support me in the effort I’m making, please consider becoming a subscriber to my X account for only $2. I write about the ancient, medieval, and modern history of Greece and what Christians went through in Asia Minor, Greece, and Cyprus because of Islam. Thank you very much to those of you who support me and read me. - Homer Pavlos