Excerpt from Persecution of the Greeks in Turkey, 1914-1918 This Diocese comprises fifty-two Communities, and contains a population of 51,196 inhabitants. It is the one that suffered the most from the atrocities of the Balkan War, the savage persecutions of 1914, and the consequences of the Turk and Bulgarian alliance of September 1915. All that nature could devise in the way of unmerciful bastinado, unjustified arrests, imprisonment of peaceful, well-to-do people, with the sole object of extorting money from them, seizure of fortunes, requisitioning of houses and shops, etc., etc., all were put into practice, during the Bulgarian occupation of Thrace, with a view to exterminating the Greek element there, such action being not only tolerated, but also promoted by the highest Bulgarian officials. When, in July 1913, Eastern Thrace was reconquered by the Turks, the Greek population, especially the peasants, suffered all kinds of martyrdom not only on the part of the irregulars but also of the regular Turkish troops. In March, 1914, began the ummerciful persecution of the Christians, which directly inspired by the then Governor of Adrianople, Hadji Adil Bey, conducted by Government officials, and carried out by bands of gipsies and Musulman Albanians, forced the Greek population to leave their country. (a.) Persecution before and during the year 1914. (a.) Adrianople Region. 1. Kara Yousouf. - During this persecution, the Turks killed Constantine Athanassiou and Elias Kalludi; also the two brothers George and Basil Petrou. The inhabitants of this village fled to Greece, excepting a few families who remained in Adrianople. 2. Moussoul-Beyli. - At the time of the re-occupation of Adrianople Turkish soldiers killed eight peasants and burnt alive Apostolos Georgiou. The remainder of the inhabitants were forced to flee to Bulgaria. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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