THE ARMENIAN AND GREEK GENOCIDES BY TURKEY

         

Armenia

 

The Armenian prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, yesterday, condemned crimes against civilisation and demanded an apology from Turkey as his country commemorated the 105^th anniversary of the World War I genocide.  Genocide is a “crime not only against our ethnic identity but also against human civilisation” the Armenian prime minister said after laying flowers at the genocide memorial at Yerevan.

The commemorative events were postponed due to the coronavirus restrictions that were imposed throughout the country and, obviously, the Yerevan memorial was also closed to the public.  In a video address at the memorial, the Prime Minister said that after more than a century “the consequences of genocide have not been eliminated.”

But these were not the only Turkish massacres against Christian populations in Asia Minor.   The Greek genocide was the massacre of the Greek Christian population carried out in Turkey during World War I and its aftermath (1914-1922), based on religious discrimination and ethnicity.  According to serious sources, umpteen Greeks were killed during this period. Most survivors fled to Greece and some to the Russian Empire.  Unfortunately, by late 1922, several Greeks from Asia Minor had managed to flee to safety but the largest part of the population, 1.5 million innocent people had been tragically massacred by the barbarians.

The Allies of World War I condemned the Ottoman government-sponsored massacres as crimes against humanity.  More recently the International  Association of Genocide Scholars, passed a resolution in 2007, recognising the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities as a genocide. The national legislatures of Greece, Cyprus, the USA, Sweden, Armenia, the Netherlands, Germany. Austria and the Czech Republic have also recognised this atrocious massacre as a genocide.

Even today Turkey is extremely aggressive against Greece and Cyprus. It is terrible for peaceful, civilised European countries to have such a bellicose, brutal close neighbour.    

   

For the People Massacred by Turkey