ΑΥΤΗ ΕΙΝΑΙ Η ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ!!!
(THIS IS TURKEY!!!)
ΕΝΑ ΝΕΟΣΥΣΤΑΤΟ ΚΡΑΤΟΣ, ΕΝΟΣ
ΑΝΥΠΑΡΚΤΟΥ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΩΣ ΕΘΝΟΥΣ, ΙΔΡΥΘΕΝ ΑΠΟ ΕΝΑΝ ΚΡΥΠΤΟΤΑΛΜΟΥΔΙΣΤΗ ΙΟΥΔΑΙΟ/ ΝΤΟΝΜΕ
(ΜΟΥΣΤΑΦΑ ΚΕΜΑΛ) [1923] ΚΑΙ ΔΙΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΟΝ ΣΗΜΕΡΟΝ, ΑΠΟ ΕΝΑ ΓΕΝΙΤΣΑΡΟΝ (ΤΑΓΙΠ
ΕΡΝΤΟΓΑΝ)1
Τεχνητόν Ιουδαιογενές κράτος.
Ολεσηνόρων ντονμέδων καταφύγιον.
Υπέρκομπων ισλαμοφασιστών άντρον.
Ρωμηοσύνης αρχαιόθεν ιδιοκτησία.
Κατασφακτήριον αλλοεθνών πολιτών.
Ιστορίας Ελλήνων κλωπεύς.
Αυτοκρατορίας Οσμανλήδων σφετεριστής.
ΧΑΡΤΗΣ ΜΕ ΤΑ ΠΑΝΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΕΔΑΦΗ
(ΑΝΑΤΟΛΙΚΗ ΘΡΑΚΗ, ΙΩΝΙΑ, ΠΟΝΤΟΣ) ΤΑ ΟΠΟΙΑ ΚΑΤΑΠΑΤΟΥΝ ΕΔΩ ΚΑΙ ΑΙΩΝΕΣ, ΟΙ
ΑΙΜΟΣΤΑΓΕΙΣ ΑΥΤΟΑΠΟΚΑΛΟΥΜΕΝΟΙ ΤΟΥΡΚΟΙ!!!
ΤΟΥΣ
ΠΡΟΕΙΔΟΠΟΙΟΥΜΕ: ΕΡΧΟΝΤΑΙ ΟΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ ΣΤΡΑΤΙΩΤΕΣ ΜΑΣ!!!
Yunan askerlerimiz Türkiye’ ye
geliyorlar!2
ΜΕΡΟΣ 31ον
15. ΓΕΡΜΑΝΑ-
ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ: ΔΙΑΧΡΟΝΙΚΗ ΑΝΘΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΣΥΜΜΑΧΙΑ
(Συνέχεια 30ου μέρους)3
«Η
Τουρκία πρέπει να γίνει μωαμεθανική χώρα, όπου η μωαμεθανική θρησκεία και οι
μωαμεθανικές αντιλήψεις θα κυριαρχούν και κάθε άλλη θρησκευτική προπαγάνδα θα
καταπνίγεται… Αργά ή γρήγορα θα πρέπει να πραγματοποιηθεί η πλήρης
οθωμανοποίηση όλων των υπηκόων της Τουρκίας. Και είναι ολοκάθαρο ότι αυτό δεν
μπορεί να γίνει με την πειθώ. Άρα πρέπει να χρησιμοποιηθεί ένοπλη βία……
Το δικαίωμα των άλλων εθνοτήτων να έχουν δικές
τους οργανώσεις θα πρέπει να αποκλειστεί. Κάθε μορφή αποκεντρώσεως και αυτοδιοικήσεως,
θα θεωρείται προδοσία προς την τουρκική αυτοκρατορία» (Απόφαση του «νεοτουρκικού»
Συνεδρίου του κόμματος Ένωση και
Πρόοδος, Νοέμβριος 1911).
ιζ. Ο
ρόλος των Ταλμουδιστών Ιουδαίων, στις διώξεις και γενοκτονίες των Ελλήνων και
Αρμενίων, αλλά και λοιπών μη «Τούρκων», από τους Τουρκογερμανούς
Οι Ιουδαίοι που
κατοικούσαν στην Οθωμανική αυτοκρατορία από της αρχικής εγκαταστάσεώς τους
μέχρι και σήμερα, ΟΥΔΕΠΟΤΕ ενοχλήθηκαν από το Οθωμανικόν καθεστώς, πολύ
περισσότερον από τους ομοφύλους και κρυπτο-ομοθρήσκους τους ντονμέδες που
αποτελούσαν την παμψηφίαν σχεδόν των μελών της ηγετικής ομάδος των «Νεοτούρκων»,
τους οποίους και εβοήθησαν παντοιοτρόπως, ακόμη και στις σφαγές των Χριστιανών
της Ανατολικής Θράκης και Μικράς Ασίας!!!
Διαχρονικώς δρούσαν σε
βάρος των Χριστιανών ως ωτακουστές και δήμιοι στις περιπτώσεις των βιαίων
εξισλαμισμών, σε βάρος των αρνουμένων να εξισλαμισθούν ή βοηθοί των σφαγέων σε
εκτελέσεις χριστιανών. Σήμερα διοικούν την Τουρκία, δια του βαθέος ….βαθύτατα
Ιουδαϊκού κράτους ..
Historically, the Jews
in Turkey were never persecuted and even helped in the formation of the Young
Turks Movement in 1908 (the same movement
would later be accused of an alleged "genocide" against the
Armenians). The Jews also later
supported the war of independence, betraying the Christians in favour of the
Muslims. Ataturk even praised Turkish Jews for their contributions towards the
movement.
When World War II started, many European Jews fled to Turkey. When
Israel was created in 1948, at the expense of the Palestinians who would
undergo a colossal loss of land and subsequent genocide attempts of their own
at the hands of the Jews, Turkey became
the first Muslim country to recognize it. The two countries good relations
continued well, into the next few decades until Israel committed several
massacres, mass murders, and wars against non-Jews in Palestine in an effort to
ethnically cleanse Israel, including the 2008 flotilla attack. Israel only
apologized after Obama forced it's hand. Israel's belligerent attitude towards
non-Jews has ironically even seen it's government come out in support of a
"shoah/holocaust" against Palestinians.4
In World War II however, although Turkey and Nazist Germany had signed
alliance, Turkey rescued 115,000 Jews from Europe. When this figure is broken
down, 15,000 were French Jews who were allowed to settle in Turkey, along with
100,000 Eastern European Jews.5
Turkey however, also deprived 2,000 Turkish Jews of their citizenship,
but refused to do so for 3,000 others, who were all on an arrest warrant list
made by the Germans at the height of Nazi power.6
ιη. Αποσπάσματα δηλώσεων ξένων επισήμων, επιστημόνων, κλπ, για
την γενοκτονία των Ελλήνων στην Μικρά Ασία, από τους Γερμανο-Νεο (μη) τούρκους
και τις συμμορίες τους7
Ως επιστέγασμα της αποκαλύψεως
της αποκρυπτομένης ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑΣ, σχετικώς με τα γεγονότα της περιόδου 1895-1923,
στην Οθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία του Σουλτάνου και των «Νεοτούρκων», και αναφορικώς
με τις διώξεις, σφαγές, λεηλασίες, ξερριζωμούς και την γενοκτονίαν των Ελλήνων
και όχι μόνον, από τους Γερμανο-οθωμανούς και Νεο (μη) τούρκους, καταγράφομεν αποσπάσματα από δηλώσεις ξένων
επισήμων, επιστημόνων, κλπ. αναφερομένων στο φλέγον θέμα που αναλύομεν…8
Quotes by United States Officials
Woodrow Wilson
United
States President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924):
“I am in hearty sympathy with every
just effort being made by the people of the United States to alleviate the
terrible sufferings of the Greeks of Asia Minor. None have suffered more or
more unjustly than they."1
Henry Morgenthau
In
a telegram to the Secretary of State regarding Ottoman Greek deportations
conducted in 1915, Henry Morgenthau (1856-1946), United States ambassador to
Turkey, states:
"Evidently
Turkish nationalistic policy is aimed at all Christians and not confined to
Armenians."2
In
an article first published in The Red Cross Magazine (March, 1918), Henry
Morgenthau (1856-1946), United States ambassador to Turkey, asked:
"Will
the outrageous terrorising, the cruel torturing, the driving of women into the
harems, the debauchery of innocent girls, the sale of many of them at eighty
cents each, the murdering of hundreds of thousands and the deportation to, and
starvation in, the deserts of other hundreds of thousands, the destruction of
hundreds of villages and cities, will the wilful execution of this whole
devilish scheme to annihilate the Armenian, Greek and Syrian Christians of
Turkey -- will all this go unpunished?"3
In
his memoirs Ambassador Morgenthau's Story (1918) Henry Morgenthau wrote:
"Acting
under Germany's prompting, Turkey now began to apply this principle of
deportation to her Greek subjects in Asia Minor... This procedure against the
Greeks not improperly aroused my indignation. I did not have the slightest
suspicion at that time that the Germans had instigated these deportations, but
I looked upon them merely as an outburst of Turkish ferocity and chauvinism. By
this time I knew Talaat well; I saw him nearly every day, and he used to
discuss practically every phase of international relations with me. I objected
vigorously to his treatment of the Greeks; I told him that it would make the
worst possible impression abroad and that it affected American interests...
"Turkey for the Turks" was now Talaat's controlling idea."4
"Their
[the Young Turks] passion for Turkifying the nation seemed to demand logically
the extermination of all Christians---Greeks, Syrians, and Armenians."5
"The
Armenians are not the only subject people in Turkey which have suffered from
this policy of making Turkey exclusively the country of the Turks. The story
which I have told about the Armenians I could also tell with certain
modifications about the Greeks and the Syrians. Indeed the Greeks were the
first victims of this nationalizing idea."6
“The
Turks adopted almost identically the same procedure against the Greeks as that
which they had adopted against the Armenians.”7
George Horton
In a report addressed to the US Secretary of State, George Horton
(1859-1942), former United States Consul General at Smyrna, wrote:
“I wish to repeat that the consistent policy of the Turk, since the fall of
Abdul Hamid, has been the expulsion, killing and elimination of the Christian
races."8
Lewis Einstein
Lewis Einstein was the late Special Agent of the American Embassy at
Constantinople. In his memoirs he wrote:
"The
persecutions of the Greeks are assuming unexpected proportions. Only a
fortnight ago they reassured and told that the measures taken against the Greek
villages in Marmora were temporary and not comparable with those against the
Armenians. Now it looks as if there is equality in suffering and that the
intention existed to uproot and destroy both peaceful communities."9
Section 1:
Quotes by United States Officials
1. NER, Speaker’s Handbook of
American Committee for the Relief of the Near East (Formerly the Committee for
Armenian and Syrian Relief) (New York: NER, c. 1919), p. 9.
2. See Telegram from Henry
Morgenthau to Secretary of State (13 July 1915) in Documents.
3. Morgenthau, Henry, “The
Greatest Horror in History”, The Red Cross Magazine, March 1918.
4. Morgenthau, Henry,
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company,
1919, p. 49.
5. Ibid, p. 290.
6. Ibid, p. 323.
7. Ibid, p. 324.
8. George Horton in Athens to
Secretary of State (27 September 1922), "The Near Eastern Question",
US National Archives, NA 767.61/476. Also reproduced in “George Horton and Mark
L. Bristol: Opposing Forces in U.S. Foreign Policy 1919-1923” by Marjorie
Housepian.
9. Lewis Einstein, Inside
Constantinople: A diplomatist’s diary during the Dardanelles Expedition,
April-September 1915. William Clowes and sons, London, 1917. p. 202.
Quotes by
British Officials
David Lloyd
George
Speaking
on Greek deportations in the House of Commons, the British Prime Minister David
Lloyd George (1863-1945) declared:
“...
tens of thousands of men, women and children have been deported, and tens of
thousands have died. It was pure deliberate extermination.”1
David
Lloyd George later wrote in his memoirs:
"The
Greeks of Asia Minor had also suffered heavily from the brutalities of the
Turks during the Great War. Hundreds of thousands were massacred in cold blood
during the War and many more driven from their homes to find refuge in Greece
and the Greek islands."2
Horace
Rumbold
Sir
Horace Rumbold (1869-1941), British High Commissioner in Constantinople to Lord
George Curzon, British Minister of Foreign Affairs:
"The
Turks appear to be working on a deliberate plan to get rid of Minorities. Their
method has been to collect at Amassia Ottoman Greeks from the region between
Samsoun and Trebizond. These Greeks are marched from Amassia via Toket and
Sivas as far as Ceasarea and then back again until they are eventually sent
through Kharput to the East. In this manner a large number of deportees die on
the road from hardship and exposure. The Turks can say that they did not
actually kill these refugees, but a comparison may be instituted with the way
in which the Turks formerly got rid of the dogs at Constantinople, by landing
them on an island where they died of hunger and thirst."3
George
Rendel
In
a memorandum on massacres and persecutions of Greeks, George W. Rendel
(1889-1979), of the Foreign Office wrote:
“...it is generally
agreed that ... over 500,000 Greeks were deported, of whom comparatively few
survived."4
Winston
Churchill
In
his memoirs Winston Churchill (1874-1965) wrote:
“...Mustapha Kemal's
Army ... celebrated their triumph by the burning of Smyrna to ashes and by a
vast massacre of its Christian population...”5
Section 2:
Quotes by British Officials
1. Great Britain, The Parliamentary Debates: Fifth Series,
Vol. 157, London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1922.
2. Lloyd George, David, Memoirs of the Peace Conference: Volume II,
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1939.
3. See Telegram from High
Commissioner Horace Rumbold to Foreign Office (10 May 1922) in Documents.
4. See Memorandum by George W.
Rendel of the Foreign Office (20 March 1922) in Documents.
5. Churchill, Winston, The Aftermath, New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1929, p. 444.
Quotes by
French, Italian and other Allied Officials
Alexander Millerand
Alexander
Millerand (1859-1943), President of the Supreme Allied Council, wrote on 16
July 1920 from Spa:
“Not
only has the Turkish Government failed to protect its subjects of other races
from pillage, outrage and murder, but there is abundant evidence that it has
been responsible for directing and organizing savagery against people to whom
it owed protection.” 1
Section 3:
Quotes by French, Italian and other Allied Officials
1. "Ultimatum
to Turkey", The Times, 19 July
1920, p. 11.
Quotes by
Turkish Officials
Şevket Paşa
General
Mahmut Şevket Paşa (1856-1913), the Ottoman Commander-in-Chief, tells Orthodox
Patriarch Ioakeim III (1834-1912), Greek Patriarch of Constantinople, in June
1909:
"We
will cut off your heads, we will make you all disappear. Either we will survive
or you."1
Talaat Bey
According
to an Austro-Hungarian agent, on 31 January 1917 Talaat Bey (1874-1921), the
Minister of the Interior, declared:
"... I
see that time has come for Turkey to have it out with the Greeks the way it had
it out with the Armenians in 1915."2
In a
telegram dated 14 May 1914, addressed to the Vali of Smyrna, Rahmi Bey, and
authored by Ali Riza, Chief of Correspondence and co-signed by Talaat Bey and
İbrahim Hilmi, the Director of the Ministry of the Interior, the following
order is given:
"It is
urgent for political reasons that the Greeks living on the coast of Asia Minor
are obliged to evacuate their villages and to settle in the vilayets of
Erzeroum and Chaldea. If they should refuse to be transported to the places
indicated, you will like to give verbal instructions to our Moslem brothers, in
order to oblige the Greeks, by excesses of any kind, to emigrate themselves of
their own accord. Do not forget to
obtain, in this case, certificates stating these immigrants leave their homes
of their own initiative, so that later political questions do not result from
it."3
Rafet Bey
On 26
November 1916 Rafet Bey (or Paşa) informs Dr. Ernst von Kwiatkowski, the
Austro-Hungarian consul in Samsoun:
"We
must at last do with the Greeks as we did with the Armenians..."4
Two days
later, 28 November 1916, Rafaet Bey informed Consul Kwiatkowski:
"We
must now finish with the Greeks. I sent today battalions to the outskirts to
kill every Greek they pass on the road."5
Damad Ferid Damad Ferid Paşa (1853-1923), the Ottoman
Turkish Grand Vizier, described Turkey's policy of extermination against the
Christians in June 1919 at the Paris Peace Conference as crimes:
"...
such as to make the conscience of mankind shudder with horror for ever."6
Mustafa Kemal
As validated
by a report of French military colonel Mougin, on 13 August 1923 in the Turkish
Grand National Assembly (Turkiye Buyuk Millet Meclisi) in Ankara, Mustafa Kemal
(1881-1938) declared:
"At
last we've uprooted the Greeks ..."7
In an
interview with Swiss journalist Emile Hilderbrand, published on Sunday 1 August
1926 in the Los Angeles Examiner under the title "Kemal Promises More
Hangings of Political Antagonists in Turkey", Mustafa Kemal states:
“These
left-overs from the former Young Turkey Party, who should have been made to
account for the lives of millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly
driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the
Republican rule.”8
Section 4:
Quotes by Turkish Officials
1. Recorded by a German
diplomat stationed in Constantinople in a 26 June 1909 report addressed to the
German Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow. See, Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen
Amtes (PAAA), Türkei Nr. 168, Beziehungen der Türkei zu Griechenland, Bd. 6,
Nr. 170 (26.6.1909). See also, the German article "[Mahmut Sevket pasha
and the Ecumenical Patriarchate]", Osmanischer
Lloyd, 146, Constantinople, 25 June 1909.
2. Ενεπεκίδης, Πολυχρόνης Κ., Οι διωγμοί των Ελλήνων του Πόντου (1908-1918): Βάσει των ανεκδότων εγγράφων των κρατικών αρχείων της Αυστροουγγαρίας [The persecutions of the Greeks of Pontus: Based on unpublished
documents of the state archives of Austria-Hungary], Αθήνα: Συλλόγου Ποντίων Αργοναύται-Κομνηνοί, 1962, p.
11.
3. Puaux, Rene, La deportation et le rapatriement des Grecs
en Turquie [Deportation and the
repatriation of Greeks in Turkey], Paris: Editions du Bulletin Hellenique,
1919, p. 11 and "Les persecutions contre les Grecs en Turquie [The
persecutions against the Greeks in Turkey]", Le Temps [The Time], Paris, 29 July 1916, p. 2. For a
transcription of the telegram in its entirety, see Smyrna.
4. Wien Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv,
PA, XXXVIII, Karton 369, Konsulate 1916, Trapezunt, ZI. 44/pol., Kwiatkowski to
Burian, Samsun (30.11.1916).
5. Ibid.
6. United States Department of
State, Papers Relation to the Foreign
Relations of the United States, 1919: The Paris Peace Conference, Volume 4,
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1943, p. 509.
7. Tsirkinidis, Harry, At last we uprooted them… The genocide of
the Greeks of Pontus, Thrace and Asia Minor, through the French archives,
Thessaloniki: Kyriakidis Brothers, 1999, p. 300.
8. See Mustafa Kemal: 1926 Los
Angeles Examiner Quote (Emile Hildebrand, "Kemal Promises More Hangings of
Political Antagonists in Turkey", Los
Angeles Examiner, Sunday Edition, Section VI, 1 August 1926.).
Quotes by German and Austro-Hungarian Officials
Kückhoff
Kückhoff,
the German Vice-Consul at Samsoun, reported to the German Ministry of the
Interior in Berlin on 16 July 1916:
“I was
informed by reliable sources that the entire Greek population of Sinope and the
coastal region of the district of Kastamoni has been exiled. Exile and
annihilation have the same meaning in Turkish, for whoever is not killed, dies
on the most part from illnesses and hunger.”1
Richard Kühlmann
Dr. Richard
von Kühlmann (1873-1948), German Ambassador in Turkey from 16 November 1916 to
24 July 1917, informed German Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg in Berlin in December
1916:
"The
consuls in Samsoun and Kerasoun report of the forceful movement of the Greek
coastal population... Until now 250 guerrillas have been killed. Prisoners are
not kept. Five villages have been reduced to ash."
In a
separate report sent some days later on 16 December 1916 Richard von Kühlmann
relays the following:
"...
Greek refugee families, the majority women and children, are being deported
from the coast towards Sevasteia in very large numbers. The need is
great."2
Ernst Kwiatkowski
Dr. Ernst
von Kwiatkowski, the Austro-Hungarian consul in Samsoun, reported to Austria's
Foreign Minister István Burián on the 30 November 1916 by telegram of what the
local moutesarif had informed him:
“On 26
November he said: ‘We must at last do with the Greeks as we did with the
Armenians and if this does not happen now, certainly at the latest it should
happen during the peace negotiations, when Greece would have entered the war,
whereupon we will be free to act.
On 28
November he said: 'We must now finish with the Greeks. I sent today battalions
to the outskirts to kill every Greek they meet on the road.
For this
reason I fear for the expulsion or the deportation of the entire Greek
population and a repeat of what occurred last year.”3
On 9 January
1917 Ernst von Kwiatkowski telegraphed:
"Up to today in the
region of Samsoun Turkish troops plundered and burned 16 Greek villages with
890 houses, 17 churches and 16 schools. Previously the same troops burned and
plundered 22 villages with 341 houses and 2 churches. 75 individuals were
murdered including 3 priests and 69 women were raped."4
Pallavicini
The Austrian
Ambassador of Constantinople, Johann Markgraf von Pallavicini (1848 -1941),
described the events in and around Samsun in December 1916:
“11 December
1916. Five Greek villages were pillaged and then burnt. Their inhabitants were
deported. 12 December 1916. In the outskirts of the city more villages are
burnt. 14 December 1916. Entire villages including schools and the churches are
set on fire. 17 December 1916. In the district of Samsoun they burnt eleven
villages. The pillaging continues. The village inhabitants are ill-treated. 31
December 1916. Approximately 18 villages were completely burnt down, 15
partially. Around 60 women were raped. Even churches are plundered.”5
On 20
January 1917 Ambassador Pallavicini informed his superiors in Vienna:
"The
situation of the deported is for despair. Death awaits them all. I tried to
draw the attention of the Grand Vizier to the events and stress how sad it
would be if the persecutions of the Greek element takes the form and dimensions
of the Armenian persecutions."6
Wangenheim
Hans
Freiherr von Wangenheim (1859-1915), German Minister in Athens, 24 June 1909:
"The
Turks have decided on a war of extermination against the Christians of the
Empire."7
In June of
1915, the German Ambassador in Constantinople, Wangenheim reported to German
Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg that Talaat Bey, the Minister of the Interior,
recently told Dr. Mortdmann of the [German] Embassy that…
“..the Porte
is intent on taking advantage of the World War in order to make a clean sweep
of internal enemies – the indigenous Christians – without being hindered in
doing so by diplomatic intervention from other countries. Such an undertaking will serve the interest of
the Germans, the Allies of Turkey, which thus in turn could be strengthened.”8
Section 5:
Quotes by German and Austro-Hungarian Officials
1. Politisches Archiv des
Auswärtigen Amtes (PAAA), Türkei Nr. 168, Beziehungen der Türkei zu
Griechenland, Bd. 15, (16.7.1916), Abschrift von Telegramm Nr. 129 (15.7.1916)
von Kückhoff. See also, Wien Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, PA, XXXVIII, Karton
369, Konsulate 1916, Trapezunt, ZI. 27/P, Kwiatkowski to Buriàn, Samsun
(30.7.1916). Note that the German consulate at Trebizond moved to Samsoun in
March 1916.
2. Politisches Archiv des
Auswärtigen Amtes (PAAA), Türkei Nr. 168, Bd. 15, f. Bd. 16, Nr. 759, A. 34108
(11.12.1916); Nr. 1363, A. 35479 (26.12.1916).
3. Wien Haus-, Hof- und
Staatsarchiv, PA, XXXVIII, Karton 369, Konsulate 1916, Trapezunt, ZI. 44/pol.,
Kwiatkowski to Burian, Samsun (30.11.1916).
4. Ενεπεκίδης, Πολυχρόνης Κ., Οι διωγμοί των Ελλήνων του Πόντου (1908-1918): Βάσει των ανεκδότων εγγράφων των κρατικών αρχείων της Αυστροουγγαρίας [The persecutions of the Greeks of Pontus: Based on unpublished
documents of the state archives of Austria-Hungary], Αθήνα: Συλλόγου Ποντίων Αργοναύται-Κομνηνοί, 1962, p.
14.
5. Wien Haus-, Hof- und
Staatsarchiv, PA, Türkei XII, Liasse 467 LIV, Griechenverfolgungen in der
Türkei 1916- 1918, ZI. 97/pol., Konstantinopel (19.1.1916), (2.1.1917).
6. Wien Haus-, Hof- und
Staatsarchiv, PA, Türkei XII, Liasse 467 LIV, Nr.6/P., Konstantinopel
(20.1.1917).
7. Politisches Archiv des
Auswärtigen Amtes (PAAA), Türkei Nr. 168, Bd. 6, Nr. 48, (24.6.1909).
8. Source: DE/PA-AA/R14086.
Publication: DuA Dok. 081 (gk.). Central register: 1915-A-19743.
Embassy/consular serial number: Nr. 372. Translated by: Linda Struck.
Accessed online N.B: A partially erroneous
collection of documentary quotations mainly featuring German and
Austro-Hungarian sources are in wide circulation having been cited in a paper
produced by the Hellenic Council of New South Wales (May 1996) and then
reproduced in Halo Not Even My Name
and later, in part, in Midlarsky The
Killing Trap. Often both dates, other particulars and the
German-to-English translations themselves are at least partially incorrect.
Quotes by Relief Workers and Missionaries
Alfred Brady
Alfred
E. Brady of Texas and member of the American Smyrna Disaster Committee, stated
in 1922.
“Although
the majority of Greek and Armenian civilian men in Asia Minor have been
deported into Angora, into what is tantamount to slavery, and the majority of
women and children exiled, the Turks' campaign of massacre and terror
continues, as the last surviving Christian communities are wiped out one by
one.”1
Stanley Hopkins
Stanley
E. Hopkins (b. 1895), an American citizen and employee of the Near East Relief,
16 November 1921:
“…the
Greeks of Anatolia are suffering the same or worse fate than did the Armenians
in the massacres of the Great War. The deportation of the Greeks is not limited
to the Black Sea Coast but is being carried out throughout the whole of the
country governed by the Nationalists. Greek villages are deported entire, the
few Turkish or Armenian inhabitants are forced to leave, and the villages are
burned. The purpose is unquestionably to destroy all Greeks in that territory
and to leave Turkey for the Turks. These deportations are, of course,
accompanied by cruelties of every form just as was true in the case of the
Armenian deportations five and six years ago.”2
Frank Jackson
Frank
W. Jackson (1874-1955), chairman of the Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia
Minor, on 17 October 1917 stated:
"The
story of the Greek deportation is not yet generally known. ... There were some
two or three million Greeks in Asia Minor at the outbreak of the war in 1914,
subject to Turkish rule. According to the latest reliable and authoritative
accounts some seven to eight hundred thousand have been deported, mainly from
the coast regions into the interior of Asia Minor.. . . Along with the
Armenians most of the Greeks of the Marmora regions and Thrace have been
deported on the pretext that they gave information to the enemy. Along the
Aegean coast Aivalik stands out as the worst sufferer. According to one report
some 70,000 Greeks have been deported towards Konia and beyond."3
Ernst Jacob
Ernst
Otto Jacob, General Secretary to the Smyrna Y.M.C.A, after arriving in Athens
in late 1922 declared:
"The
Turkish policy of the elimination of the Christian minorities in Asia Minor has
been determinedly carried into effect. The Christian quarters of Smyrna have
been practically wiped out; the populations are dead from massacre, fled, or
banished into exile. When I left, only fifty thousand homeless and foodless refugees
remained in the city."4
In
his diary entry for 24 September 1922, Ernst Jacob noted:
"In
Smyrna, hunger and exposure are the least of the evils: persecution,
deportation, robber, rape, murder—those are going on now, and the victims are
justified in dreading that they will go on until the last of their races are
extinguished."5
Johannes
Lepsius Johannes Lepsius (1858-1926), a
Germany Protestant missionary and president and founder of Deutsch Orient
Mission, stated on 31 July 1915:
“The
anti-Greek and the anti-Armenian persecution are two phases of one and the same
program, the extermination of the Christian element in Turkey.”6
Ethel Thompson
Miss
Ethel Thompson of Boston worked with the Near East Relief in Turkey and when
she returned to America she described:
"the
ghastly lines of gaunt, starving Greek women and children who staggered across
Anatolia through the city of Harput, their glassy eyes fairly protruding from
their heads, their bones merely covered with skin, skeleton babies tied to
their backs, driven on without food supplies or clothing until they dropped
dead—Turkish gendarmes hurrying them with their guns." 7
Mark Ward
Dr.
Mark Hopkinns Ward (1884-1952), medical missionary for the Near East Relief at
Kharput,7
June 1922:
“From
May, 1921, to March last, when I left, thirty thousand deportees, of whom six
thousand were Armenians and the rest Greeks, were collected at Sivas and
deported through Kharput to Bitlis and Van. Of these thirty thousand, ten
thousand perished last winter and ten thousand escaped or have been protected
by the Americans. The fate of the other ten thousand is not known. The deportations
are continuing; every week's delay means deaths to hundreds of these poor
people. The Turkish policy is extermination of these Christian minorities.”8
Edith
Wood Miss Edith Wood of Philadelphia
who worked in Kharput and later in Malatia as a nurse with the Near East Relief
wrote in her diary in May 1922 that during her two weeks journey to the coast
she saw every day:
"groups
of deportees, mostly women and children, all starving, and a great number of
bodies along the road ... and the entire remaining population was being
deported without food and clothing ... Conditions at Malatia, where the
deportees died at the rate of forty or fifty a day, were far worse than in
Harpoot."9
Forrest Yowell
Major
Forrest D. Yowell (b. 1882), director of the Kharput Near East Relief unit, May
1922:
“Two
thirds of the Greek deportees are women and children. All along the route where
these deportees have travelled Turks are permitted to visit refugee groups and
select women and girls whom they desire for any purpose. These deportations are
still in progress, and if American aid is now withdrawn all will perish. Their
whole route is today strewn with bodies of their dead, which are consumed by
dogs, wolves, vultures. The Turks make no effort to bury these dead and the deportees
are themselves not permitted to do so."10
"The
condition of the Greek minorities is even worse than that of the
Armenians."11
"The
Turkish authorities frankly state their deliberate intention to exterminate the
Greeks, and all their actions support these statements. At the present time
fresh deportations and outrages are starting in all parts of Asia Minor, from
the northern seaports to the southern districts."12
Section 6:
Quotes by Relief Workers and Missionaries
1. Oeconomos, Lysimachos, The Martyrdom of Smyrna and Eastern
Christendom: A File of Overwhelming Evidence, Denouncing the Misdeeds of the
Turks in Asia Minor and showing their responsibility for the Horrors of Smyrna,
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1922, p. 170.
2. See Stanley E. Hopkins
testimony.
3. "Turks Are Backed by
Germany," Warren Evening Mirror,
17 October 1917, p.1.
4. "Dr. Rechad and the
Greeks", The Times, 17
October 1922, p.8.
5. Papoutsy, Christos, Ships of Mercy: The True Story of the Rescue
of the Greeks: Smyrna, September 1922, Portsmouth, N.H.: Peter E.
Randall, 2008, p. 62.
6. Αρχείο Υπουργείου Εξωτερικών,
Κεντρική Υπηρεσία, 1917, Αρ. 4415 Κωνσταντινούπολη (31.7.1915).
7. Oeconomos, The Martyrdom of Smyrna and Eastern
Christendom, p. 40.
8. "Kemalist War on
Christians", The Times, 8 June 1922, p. 7.
9. Psomiades, Harry J.,
"The American Near East Relief (NER) and the Megali Catastrophe in 1922
", Journal of Modern Hellenism,
No.19, p. 139.
10. British Foreign Office
Archives, FO 371/7878.
11. "Killing by Turks has
been renewed", The New York Times,
6 May 1922, p.2.
12. Ibid.
Quotes by Academics, Genocide Scholars and Others
Israel Charny
Prof. Israel W. Charny of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, former
president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars; Executive
Director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem; and
Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Genocide:
"It is believed that in Turkey between 1913 and 1922, under the
successive regimes of the Young Turks and of Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), more than
3.5 million Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Christians were massacred in a
state-organized and state-sponsored campaign of destruction and genocide,
aiming at wiping out from the emerging Turkish Republic its native Christian
populations. This Christian Holocaust is viewed as the precursor to the Jewish
Holocaust in WWII. To this day, the Turkish government ostensibly denies having
committed this genocide."1
Speaking on the Armenian Genocide in a 2008 interview, Charny affirmed
that:
"... the victims of the Turks' genocide were not only Armenians but
also Assyrians and Greeks."2
Gregory Stanton
Prof. Gregory Stanton, president of the International Association of
Genocide Scholars (IAGS), stated in response to the IAGS resolution affirming
the Greek and Assyrian Genocides:
"This resolution is one more repudiation by the world's leading
genocide scholars of the Turkish government's ninety year denial of the Ottoman
Empire's genocides against its Christian populations, including Assyrians,
Greeks, and Armenians. The history of these genocides is clear, and there is no
more excuse for the current Turkish government, which did not itself commit the
crimes, to deny the facts. The current German government has forthrightly
acknowledged the facts of the Holocaust. The Turkish government should learn
from the German government's exemplary acknowledgment of Germany's past, so
that Turkey can move forward to reconciliation with its neighbors."3
Rudolph Rummel
Prof. Rudolph Joseph Rummel (b. 1932), professor emeritus of political
science at the University of Hawaii, in his publication titled "Statistics
of Democide" wrote:
"Democide had preceded the Young Turk's rule and with their
collapse at the end of World War I, the successor Nationalist government
carried out its own democide against the Greeks and remaining or returning
Armenians. From 1900 to 1923, various Turkish regimes killed from 3,500,000 to
over 4,300,000 Armenians, Greeks, Nestorians, and other Christians."4
Mark Levene Historian Dr. Mark
Levene, in his journal titled “Creating a modern ‘zone of genocide’: The impact
of nation- and state-formation on Eastern Anatolia, 1878-1923”, writes:
"By ridding themselves of the Armenians, Greeks, or any other group
that stood in their way, Turkish nationalists were attempting to prove how they
could clarify, purify, and ultimately unify a polity and society so that it could
succeed on its own, albeit Western-orientated terms. This, of course, was the
ultimate paradox: the CUP committed genocide in order to transform the residual
empire into a streamlined, homogeneous nation-state on the European model. Once
the CUP had started the process, the Kemalists, freed from any direct European
pressure by the 1918 defeat and capitulation of Germany, went on to complete
it, achieving what nobody believed possible: the reassertion of independence
and sovereignty via an exterminatory war of national liberation."5
Hannibal Travis
Prof. Hannibal Travis of Florida International University College of
Law, in his paper "Native Christians Massacred", writes:
"The Turks extended their policy of exterminating the Christians of
the empire to the Armenians, Greeks, Syrians, and Lebanese."6
"German military officers, diplomats, and civilians also witnessed
the planning and execution of the genocide of Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek
Christians as it unfolded. The accounts of German ambassadors and other
officials dealing with the Ottoman Empire are replete with such terms as
‘‘extermination,’’ ‘‘massacre,’’ ‘‘destruction,’’ ‘‘slaughter,’’ ‘‘systematic
butchery,’’ and ‘‘murder of thousands of human beings.’’ As the Ottomans’ main
ally in World War I, the Germans had military officers ‘‘stationed throughout
the Empire’’; they trained and led Turkish troops, and their ‘‘military
commanders and soldiers undoubtedly knew, saw, and it is alleged [indirectly]
participated’’ in the genocide of Ottoman Christians."7
"Absent a governmental intention to exterminate the Christians of
the empire, it would be nearly impossible to explain how the massacres, rapes,
deportations, and dispossessions of the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek
Christians living in the Ottoman Empire at the time of World War I could have
taken place on such a vast scale."8
Taner Akçam Turkish professor Taner
Akçam (b. 1953) in a televised interview aired in 2005 stated:
"The salvation of the Turkish nation was only to get rid of the
Christians from Anatolia and they developed plans at the beginning of 1913 and
they implemented these plans first in Western Anatolia against the
Greeks."9
Richard Dawkins
Prof. Richard MacGillivray Dawkins (1871-1955), an Oxford University
professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek studies, stated in September 1915:
"It seemed that the aim of the Turks was now the total destruction
of the Greek population."10
Silas Bent
Regarding the Treaty of Lausanne, Professor Silas Bent (1882-1945),
American journalist, author and lecturer, wrote:
"Before the World War there were three millions of Greeks in
Turkish territory; a million of them were killed or dispersed in 1915; a
million and a half of them, since 1915, have been killed or dispersed
(dispersal being the more merciless method of driving them to arid plateaus
where they died lingeringly from starvation), and the events at Smyrna were
still fresh before the minds of the delegates. What assurances could there be
against further massacres and forcible deportations if these helpless and
peaceable folk were left at the mercy of the Turk?"11
Stephen Pound
On 7 June 2006, Stephen Pelham Pound (b. 1948), member of the British
Parliament, raised the issue of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides in
the House of Commons:
"I hope that it is not contentious to say that 3.5 million of the
historic Christian population of Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks then living in
the Ottoman empire had been murdered—starved to death or slaughtered—or exiled
by 1923."12
"Genocide did happen—3.5 million people were killed or died in the
desert. Why did it happen? Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians had lived in the
Ottoman Empire for many hundreds of years, and some for even longer; and there
was not a systematic programme or pogrom until late in the 19th century.
Without doubt there were isolated incidents, but something changed,
particularly during the caliphate of Sultan Abdul Hamid, and especially with
the election of the Committee for Union and Progress."13
Section 7: Quotes by Academics, Genocide Scholars and Others
1. International Association of
Genocide Scholars internal correspondance.
2. Smith, David,
"Armenia's 'Christian holocaust'", The Jerusalem Post, 24
April 2008.
3. "Genocide Scholars
Association Officially Recognizes Assyrian, Greek Genocides", IAGS Press
Release, IAGS, 16 December 2007.
4. Rummel, Rudolph J., Statistics of Democide: Genocide and Mass
Murder since 1900, Münster:
LIT, 1998, p. 78.
5. Levene, Mark, “Creating a
modern ‘zone of genocide’: The impact of nation- and state-formation on Eastern
Anatolia, 1878-1923”, Holocaust and
Genocide Studies, Volume 12, Issue 3, Winter 1998, p. 415.
6. Travis, Hannibal,
"‘'Native Christians Massacred’’: The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians
during World War I", Genocide Studies
and Prevention, December 2006, p. 334.
7. Ibid, pp. 336-7.
8. Ibid, p. 342.
9. TPT-TV program "The
Armenian Genocide: 90 Years Later" on 24 April 2005.
10. "A Byzantine
Remnant", The Times, 10
September 1915, p. 6.
11. "Uprooting of Greeks in
Turkey", The New York Times,
21 January 1923, p. XX5.
12. Stephen Pound (Ealing,
North) (Lab), House of Commons, 3.57 pm 7 June 2006. See House of Commons
Hansard Debates for 07 Jun 2006.
13.
Ibid
*
Παρουσιάσαμε
αποσπάσματα από δηλώσεις ξένων επισήμων προσώπων, επιστημόνων, κλπ, αυτοπτών,
αυτήκοων ή αμφοτέρων των κατηγοριών, μαρτύρων, αναφερομένων στο φλέγον θέμα που
αναλύομεν, χωρίς σχόλια, σε μία
υστάτη προσπάθεια, να πείσουμε κάθε καλόπιστον και ελεύθερον αναγνώστη, για την
ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑΝ, την οποίαν εξακολουθούν να μας αποκρύπτουν, αναφορικώς με:
.Τα γεγονότα που
προηγήθηκαν ή ελαβαν χώραν κατά την προμνησθείσα περίοδον 1895-1923, στην
Οθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία των Σουλτάνων και των «Νεοτούρκων», αναφορικώς με τις
διώξεις, σφαγές, λεηλασίες, ξερριζωμούς και την γενοκτονία των Ελλήνων,
Αρμενίων και Αραβοφώνων, από τους Γερμανο-οθωμανούς και Νεο (μη) τούρκους,
.Την κατασκευασθείσα
και επιβληθείσα βιαίως Εθνική/ φυλετική ταυτότητα του «Τούρκου», μιας ιστορικώς
ανύπαρκτης εθνότητος, σε ΟΛΟΥΣ τους αλλοεθνείς και αλλοδόξους, που αποτελούν
σήμερα την μεγάλην πλειοψηφίαν στην Τουρκίαν,
.Τους
εμπνευστές και τις συνθήκες κατασκευής του λεγομένου Τουρκικού κράτους, καθώς
και εκείνους που πραγματικά διοικούν την σημερινήν αποκαλουμένην, κατ’
ευφημισμόν, «Τουρκική Δημοκρατία»....
Παρά ταύτα, εάν και
μετά όσα παρουσιάσαμε μέχρι τώρα,
ιστορικώς, επιστημονικώς και επαρκώς αιτιολογημένα, περί Τούρκων,
Τουρκίας,
Κεμάλ,
«Νεοτούρκων», Γερμανών συμβούλων, πραγματικών ενόχων για τις
διαπραχθείσες γενοκτονίες, σε βάρος των Ελλήνων, Αρμενίων, Συροχαλδαίων και
λοιπών Αραβοφώνων, υπάρχουν ακόμη άπιστοι, αρνητές ή αμφισβητίες, ακολουθεί το
τελευταίον κεφάλαιον για τις σχέσεις του ντονμέ Κεμάλ και των ντονμέδων
Κεμαλιστών με τον Χίτλερ και τον Ναζισμόν.
Μετά την παράθεση των
σχετικών αποδεικτικών στοιχείων συνεργασίας και σχέσεων Κεμαλισμού-Ναζισμού, ευελπιστούμε
πως ΔΕΝ θα υπάρξει κάποιος εχέφρων και ελεύθερος άνθρωπος που να μην έχει
αντιληφθεί την ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ για τους Τούρκους και τι αντιπροσωπεύει η σημερινή
Τουρκία, στην ευρύτερη περιοχή της Ανατ. Μεσογείου….
Εάν παρ’ έλπίδα,
υπάρξουν δίποδα όντα, εξακολουθούντα να ευρίσκονται στην κατηγορίαν αυτή (του
απίστου, αρνητού, αμφισβητία, κλπ), τότε αυτά χρήζουν ειδικής νευροψυχιατρικής
εξετάσεως ή είναι επικίνδυνοι για την Ελλάδα και την Ελεύθερη ανθρωπότητα, ως
ενσυνείδητα όργανα του ΣΥΣΤΗΜΑΤΟΣ…
Συνεχίζεται
1 Όπως
υποσ. 1, 1ου μέρους.
2 geliyorlar: Third person plural present continuous of gelmek (gelmek==έρχομαι,
πηγαίνω, καταλήγω στον προορισμό μου, (αργκό)
εκσπερματώνω).
3 Όπως υποσ. 3, 30ου μέρους.
4 Yucel Bozdaglioglu (1 June 2004). Turkish
Foreign Policy and Turkish Identity: A Constructivist Approach. Routledge. p. 143. [ISBN
978-1-135-94159-8].
5 STANFORD J. SHAW (2001). TURKEY AND THE
JEWS OF EUROPE DURING WORLD WAR II. Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Retrieved March 20th 2016.
6 Hans-Lukas Kieser (26 December 2006). Turkey
Beyond Nationalism: Towards ost-Nationalist Identities. I.B.Tauris. p. 56. ISBN
978-1-84511-141-0.
8 Πηγές αποσπασμάτων από
τις δηλώσεις ξένων επισήμων και άλλων προσωπικοτήτων, για την γενοκτονίαν των
Ελλήνων και όχι μόνον, από τους Τούρκους. Notes:
Οι Έλληνες πρόγονοί μας δεν συμπεριφέρθηκαν σαν άγγελοι. Υπάρχουν μαρτυρίες από ανεξάρτητες πηγές που περιγράφουν αγριότητες του χειρίστου είδους που έκαναν στη Μικρά Ασία. Ιδού:
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήΟ Αμερικανός αντιστράτηγος Τζέιμς Χάρμπορντ (James Harbord) έγραψε το εξής προς την Αμερικανική Γερουσία, περιγράφοντας τους πρώτους μήνες της κατοχής: «Τα ελληνικά στρατεύματα και οι ντόπιοι Έλληνες που ενώθηκαν με το στρατό ξεκίνησαν ένα γενικό μακελειό του Μουσουλμανικού πληθυσμού, κατά το οποίο οι Οθωμανοί αξιωματούχοι, οι στρατιώτες, αλλά και οι φιλειρηνικοί κάτοικοι θανατώθηκαν χωρίς διάκριση.»
Ένας Βρετανός αξιωματούχος σημείωσε (σύμφωνα με τον ιστορικό Τανέρ Ακτσάμ (Taner Akçam): «Δεν υπήρξε καν οργανωμένη αντίσταση [από τους Τούρκους] κατά τη διάρκεια της Ελληνικής κατοχής. Και όμως οι Έλληνες επιμένουν να καταπιέζουν, και συνεχίζουν να καίνε χωριά, να σκοτώνουν Τούρκους και να βιάζουν και να σκοτώνουν γυναίκες και νεαρά κορίτσια, να στραγγαλίζουν παιδιά.»
Ο Χάρολντ Άρμστρονγκ (Harold Armstrong), Βρετανός αξιωματούχος και μέλος της Διασυμμαχικής Επιτροπής, έγραψε οτι καθώς οι Έλληνες έκαναν επέλαση βγαίνοντας από τη Σμύρνη, κατακρεούργησαν και βίασαν πολίτες, καίγοντας και λεηλατώντας στο πέρασμά τους.
Ο Άρνολντ Τζ. Τόυνμπη (Arnold J. Toynbee), ο διάσημος Βρετανός ιστορικός, έγραψε οτι ο ίδιος και η γυναίκα-του έγιναν μάρτυρες θηριωδιών που διέπραξαν οι Έλληνες στις περιοχές της Γιάλοβας, του Γκεμλίκ, και της Νικομήδειας (Izmit). Όχι μόνο κατέγραψαν άφθονο αποδεικτικό υλικό όπως «καμμένα και λεηλατημένα σπίτια, πρόσφατα πτώματα, και τρομοκρατημένους επιζώντες», αλλά επίσης είδαν με τα μάτια-τους ληστείες από Έλληνες πολίτες και εμπρησμούς από Έλληνες στρατιωτικούς την ώρα που διέπρατταν αυτές τις πράξεις.
Η Μάρτζορι Χουσεπιάν (Marjorie Housepian) έγραψε οτι 4.000 Μουσουλμάνοι της Σμύρνης σκοτώθηκαν από τις Ελληνικές δυνάμεις.
ΔιαγραφήΟ Γιοχάννες Κολμόντιν (Johannes Kolmodin), Σουηδός λαογράφος με έδρα τη Σμύρνη και ειδικευόμενος στην Ανατολή, έγραψε σε γράμματά του οτι ο ελληνικός στρατός είχε κάψει 250 Τουρκικά χωριά.
Η Διασυμμαχική Επιτροπή δήλωσε στην αναφορά της της 23ης Μαΐου 1921: «Μια ιδιαίτερη και συστηματική μέθοδος φαίνεται να ακολουθείται κατά την καταστροφή των χωριών, ομάδα προς ομάδα, κατά τους τελευταίους δύο μήνες, η οποία καταστροφή έχει αγγίξει τα περίχωρα του ελληνικού αρχηγείου. Τα μέλη της Επιτροπής θεωρούν οτι, στην περίπτωση των οικισμών της Γιάλοβας και του Γκεμλίκ που κατέλαβε ο ελληνικός στρατός, υπάρχει ένα συστηματικό σχέδιο καταστροφής των Τουρκικών χωριών και εξάλειψης του Μουσουλμανικού πληθυσμού. Το σχέδιο αυτό υλοποιείται από ελληνικές και αρμενικές ομάδες, που φαίνονται να δρουν υπό τις ελληνικές οδηγίες, και μερικές φορές ακόμη και με συνδρομή αποσπασμάτων τακτικού στρατού.»
Οι Έλληνες υποχωρόντας το 1922 υιοθέτησαν την πολιτική του ν’ αφήσουν καμμένη γη πίσω-τους. Έκαψαν χωριά, σκότωσαν άντρες, βίασαν και σκότωσαν γυναίκες και παιδιά καθώς οπισθοχωρούσαν προς τη Σμύρνη:
ΔιαγραφήΟ Σίντνεϋ Νέτλτον Φίσερ (Sydney Nettleton Fisher), ένας ιστορικός της Μέσης Ανατολής, έγραψε: «Ο ελληνικός στρατός, καθώς οπισθοχωρούσε, ακολούθησε πολιτική καμμένης γης, και διέπραξε κάθε είδους αγριότητα στο πέρασμά του ενάντια σε αβοήθητους Τούρκους χωρικούς».
Ο Νόρμαν Μ. Νάιμαρκ (Norman M. Naimark) σημείωσε: «Η ελληνική υποχώρηση ήταν ακόμα πιο καταστροφική για τον ντόπιο πληθυσμό από την κατοχή.»
Ο Τζέιμς Λόντερ Παρκ (James Loder Park), Αμερικανός Ανθύπατος στην Κωνσταντινούπολη την εποχή εκείνη, ο οποίος επισκέφθηκε μεγάλο μέρος της κατεστραμμένης περιοχής αμέσως μετά την ελληνική φυγή, περιέγραψε ως εξής αυτά που είδε: «Η Μανίσα... σχεδόν εξ ολοκλήρου αφανισμένη απ’ τη φωτιά... 10.300 σπίτια, 15 τζαμιά, 2 λουτρά, 2.278 καταστήματα, 19 ξενοδοχεία, 26 βίλλες... [καταστράφηκαν]. Ο Κασαμπάς (Turgutlu) ήταν μια πόλη με 40.000 ψυχές, απ’ τις οποίες οι 3.000 ήταν μη-Μουσουλμάνοι. Από αυτούς τους 37.000 Τούρκους μόνο οι 6.000 μπορούσαν να μετρηθούν ανάμεσα στους ζωντανούς, ενώ 1.000 Τούρκοι ήταν γνωστό οτι είχαν πυροβοληθεί ή καεί ζωντανοί. Από τα 2.000 κτίρια που αποτελούσαν την πόλη, μόνο 200 παρέμειναν όρθια. Πάμπολλες ενδείξεις υπάρχουν που δείχνουν οτι η πόλη είχε συστηματικά καταστραφεί από Έλληνες στρατιώτες, που βοηθήθηκαν από έναν αριθμό Ελλήνων και Αρμενίων πολιτών. Κηροζίνη και βενζίνη χρησιμοποιήθηκαν ευρέως για να κάνουν την καταστροφή πιο σίγουρη, γρήγορη, και πλήρη. Στη Φιλαδέλφεια (Alaşehir) χρησιμοποιήθηκαν χειροκίνητες αντλίες για να βραχούν οι τοίχοι κτιρίων με κηροζίνη. Καθώς εξετάζαμε τα ερείπια της πόλης, βρήκαμε έναν αριθμό κρανίων και οστών, απανθρακωμένων και μαύρων, με υπολείματα τριχών και δέρματος κολλημένα πάνω τους. Με δική μας προτροπή ένας αριθμός τάφων που φαίνονταν πρόσφατα φτιαγμένοι ανοίχτηκαν, οπότε διαπιστώσαμε οτι τα νεκρά σώματα δεν είχαν ταφεί περισσότερο από τέσσερις εβδομάδες πριν [που ήταν η διάρκεια της ελληνικής υποχώρησης μέσα από τη Φιλαδέλφεια].»