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.

The final years of the Ottoman Empire were catastrophic ones for its non-Turkish, non-Muslim minorities. From 1913 to 1923, its rulers deported, killed, or otherwise persecuted staggering numbers of citizens in an attempt to preserve “Turkey for the Turks,” setting a modern precedent for how a regime can commit genocide in pursuit of political ends while largely escaping accountability. While this brutal history is most widely known in the case of the Armenian genocide, few appreciate the extent to which the Empire’s Assyrian and Greek subjects suffered and died under similar policies. This comprehensive volume is the first to broadly examine the genocides of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks in comparative fashion, analyzing the similarities and differences among them and giving crucial context to present-day calls for recognition.

"A remarkably readable, judicious and well-researched account" (Financial Times) of World War I in the Middle East By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict. Unlike the static killing fields of the Western Front, the war in the Middle East was fast-moving and unpredictable, with the Turks inflicting decisive defeats on the Entente in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and Gaza before the tide of battle turned in the Allies' favor. The postwar settlement led to the partition of Ottoman lands, laying the groundwork for the ongoing conflicts that continue to plague the modern Arab world. A sweeping narrative of battles and political intrigue from Gallipoli to Arabia, The Fall of the Ottomans is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Great War and the making of the modern Middle East.

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A Financial Times Book of the Year A Foreign Affairs Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year “A landmark contribution to the study of these epochal events.” —Times Literary Supplement “Brilliantly researched and written...casts a careful eye upon the ghastly events that took place in the final decades of the Ottoman empire, when its rulers decided to annihilate their Christian subjects...Hitler and the Nazis gleaned lessons from this genocide that they then applied to their own efforts to extirpate Jews.” —Jacob Heilbrun, The Spectator Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region’s Christian minorities. By 1924, the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, once nearly a quarter of the population, had been reduced to 2 percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. The Thirty-Year Genocide is the first account to show that all three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia’s Christian population. Despite the dramatic swing from the Islamizing autocracy of the sultan to the secularizing republicanism of the post–World War I period, the nation’s annihilationist policies were remarkably constant, with continual recourse to premeditated mass killing, homicidal deportation, forced conversion, and mass rape. And one thing more was a constant: the rallying cry of jihad. While not justified under the teachings of Islam, the killing of two million Christians was effected through the calculated exhortation of the Turks to create a pure Muslim nation. “A subtle diagnosis of why, at particular moments over a span of three decades, Ottoman rulers and their successors unleashed torrents of suffering.” —Bruce Clark, New York Times Book Review