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Greek Atrocities in the Vilayet of Smyrna GREEK ATROCITIES VILAYET OF SMYRNA (MAY TO dULY 184 8) IKEDITED DOCUMENTS AID EYIDENCE OF ENGLISH AND PREWCH OFFICERS - (First series) Published by " The Permanent Bureau of the Turkish Congress at Lausanne. I by the awakening of Turkish initiative. It was the venting of rative authorities. Wise oppression, learned despotiElm, aiming the helps rage of the monopolizers and usurers, hopelessly methodically as Ely& Reclus, the eminent Franch geographer d~ispossessednot of their own belongings, but of their ancient bay8, at the degradation of the allog&es, is applied with a- ' fields of cheate4. veritable art, All that is not Greek ki in fact outlawed. No opportunity is lost of making them .feel the spurred heel of , .:F . The Hellenic authorities with the profound experience the oppressor. Even in the courts of justice which invdbly , ,.mat characterises them in the oppression and extermination ' decide against all who are not Greek! This little people, im- 'of the allugeneous peopleo who have fallen into their clutches, - -/ bued wit31 great unrealisable ambitions is of a ferocious fana- ,t-,(ibe&m,immediately dter the occupaMon, to put into force ' ' . -. tbism, an incredible cruelty, a craftiness, an unparalleled -again their former ignoble system which met with such 8* . L' e % perfidiousnew towar& those who have the misfortune to fall -.--'success in the Morea, in Thessaly, in Zpire, .in Crete and m- --v ..5- under itP3 domina.tion. - '*ceatly also jn Macedonia It consists first of dl in pouring a , ' ., , ,,,;:flood of professiond bandits, of crim,inals of whom Greece Such is the system of government applied to the allogenes , : . - :::';'more.t' than my other country possessm the monopoly, riS@ in the XXkh. century, in the civilised Hellenic Kingdom; such . -"every,':, corner of ground where a Hellenic soldier has set foot. L the people that aspires to rule in the East over nihions of :;-:The native Greek scoundrels are alwayg ready to lend them populations of another race, of another religion than its own. ' . .Y1 .- ;s:tca helping hand and an acute period of atmiow tyranny begh To give over a country to Greece lis to doom its inhabitants ~ c to torture' to depopukte it, to condemn it to moral and ma- :"-.-- fat once. While the famoue agency of Athens, by a profusion - %-+oflies and slanders, of false accounts of Turkish atrocities, terial ruin, * -.< -.. - -*Aivertsattention rand throws a thick veil over the crimes of r L- It was thus that they acted in the Morea ' which had - ,,.x-,?i~'andarbs and of ite patikares, the latter more and more three hundred thousand Mussuban inhabitants in 1830, in .' , "~2~exci~by the newspapers, assured of impunity, do not shrink Thessaly which numbered a hundred and fifty thouand in -, -. :. -from any infamy. Turkish villages burning, violations; masb 4-", 1878, dn Crete which possessed 50.000 Turkish inhabitants . - .: . -:sacrea'. perpetrated upon peaceful Turkkh inhabitants )become in 1897, In the Morea and in Thessaly today there no longer -- " :the order of %heday. The unfortunate population, persecuted, * 2 l exists la single Turkish aoul, In Crete scarcely 20,000 Turlw >'terrified,has no longer the courage to withstand such a re- t . '* * - have been able to survive the painful calvary of twenty years . ,* "gime : in a body they leave their homes, their villages, their of Gwk oppression! In a short time none will be left. Mace- their crops, abandoning their fortune, possessions, everything dda, under the Gwk heel, has lost in a few years the two .'to save their lives and their honour. All these poor rujned fold, thirds of her .beat sons. As for Epire .... if the stones of this rC ' their 'often bereaved of dearest ones, are stranded miserably poor country drowned in her blood, could be made to speak, - in the nonoccupied parts of the Mother-country. Everywhere one would be ashamed of being a man since the cuthom of , ln Turkey one meets these poor Mouhadjim (emigrants), these labominable ebes consider themaelves also as such! * , Cretes, Moreans, Macedonians, Epiriens, Thessalonians and ,# -: . others, uprooted, in quest of aid or protection, and whose The Greek occupation with all itrr attendant homm .and - tragic fate and account of their dsfortunes stir the.indign* crimes hm fallen also on the vilayet of Smyrna. ; ' tion of the most Mas& I Detachments of regulars 'and bands of Greek cdtadjis The visible persecutipns, the sytematic atrocities only have terrorisel ,and given over to fire and sword these para- '< cease to give place to the subtle exactions of the administ- &sacical regiollg which the Turlcish regime has left free from I - 4 - 'all incursion during five centurlea. One of the re0ttopla.n , . hicrtonic Interest of the highest jmpartance on an*unexampled - provinces on whose soil no fighting had been witnessed for , . cddty that an error of politid appmiation has let loose \ ,': five hundred years, has just been the theatre pf a hideous . *. over a part of our unhappy country. ,., invasion which in a few days reduc@ it to the likeness of the . < .' .perpetual battldields of Macedonia; they have transformed . - Nothing oan compare with 'this pitiless &bloody ho- , thh mmellcrus country into a v~tdesert. Nearly 50.000 Turks utlding down of the Turk, which from the -ion of En- ..%ave perished there in the most frightful torrnente, whilst . gbh, French, a&, Italian witnesses characterbea the Greek ~ - + ' :C .300.000 other fugitives wand& about without medicaments, occupation aqd the systematic destruction of aur dear province. .:, .wiWut:shelter and without -resource all round the zone of . .-': Greek occupation which has become a hell for the Mwulmans. w&en of the high Greelr society; elegant ladies of + -.--y : . -' - , 1. -c ,2' given ? - .: At Smyrna itself in the great port of the. Aegean Sea, \ Smyrm have proof of a Kaffirlike beshlity taking .-- under the very eyes of indignant foreignem, no hfamy has delight, even taking part with songs and laughter in the most ...- . .‘ -- been spared the Turklbh population. The ,reports that we have %.s. - -, ' abject unutilationa. - ,,; published to day throw suffioient light on the baseness d these - p- . .- adventurers. But two parts of thif3 provlince where the crimes .' But bloodshed la never forgiven and Gtice woi-ka out - . -.t * " - become of a truly reyolbing magnitude are Mknemen md Aidin. , her ends. 2 - v ' '_ - Almost the whole Turkish population of MBnemen were Under wh~tev81rregime we may live au. dead will dwaye , ' . massacred without any provocation, without any motive which - have a hold bver Hellenism. -, '"even the existence of disturbances could justify. Aa to the , . - " *. tragedy of Aidin, it exceeds %in.horror all that can be imagined. 'The viotory of the allies cannot be regarded a8 a victory ' -\% - . 'a, .. , Nero, in setting £ire to Rome, had not condemned the po- . , of the' Cmes over the Crescellit. The Muasulmam who fought . - . pulation to be burnt alive in their dwellings. That is however I in the rar& of the alliea would be surprised to learn that they . - :what the Greek did at Aidin. From Smyrna as far as Nazilli had shed their blood in such a cause. Quite btherwise were \-. all the towns, village, hamleta are nothing but a heap of- . , the afhations aolemnly made to them when they were in- . - . ' ruins 4md ashes. Most of them scarcely hide amongst their dted enrol , kemselves. t under the banner1 of the Entente. , -.still smoking wreckage, the carbonised corpses, the bleeding , refnaiins of thousands of poor innocent Turks, of worn&, of -'1n eubmitting these reporta and testimonies to the superior .children, of old men sacrificed to the ferocity of the Hellenic . fraction of public opinion which professers the same humanit* .G -8orderr..- From all this devastated region, formerly one of the the oppressed without ~cdonof A - most prosperous, a cry of frightful distress arises to-day. rian intereat tow- .* , race or religion, we appeal to the impartial opinion of Europe . - The Permanent Bureau of the Turkish Congress at Lau- . and of America that ' justice nothing but justice--may be ~ - same is able to publish today yome document bearing wit- r'..ness in the most unquestionable fashion to the extent and , rendered to the &hta of an overwhelming Turkish majority. ' - ;r: magnitude of the Greek atrocities. and that the Turkish province of Smyma may be for ever clean- ,. t- l "- : *. It cannot speafdmly in&& on the reading of such and ~uch ? sed from the pollution of a multitude of crimind adventurem, +.8 paper, all without exception presenting a documentary, md . < , . _ -.Translation of the letter No 1/24516,dated 26th . .r treatment aad in collgequence me prevented from carrying . -. June 1919, <. *. addressed by the Colonel Kemal, Commsndnnt out their service. + +'; .' - General of the Gendarmerie, to the French Colonel d . 'I. .ii 1 It stands out from the reports wbhch I have the honour . x-* "s: -wr. , ..* Fodon, Inspector General. , ' 3 to forward you,' respecting the occupation, under atrocious -, ?b?,. - . %*.,% . circumebces of the Cazae (clistricta) of Mbemen and Ber- - .,'-? - .; . 4 .'*. Since the eieg of the armistice, the various eventa gamo,'coming after that of Smyrna, that the rnassscres car- , +::"'which take place in the different parts of the.Ermpire aa well ) ried 'out by- the peguhr Hellenic troop h conjunction with ' . ..<as. the crime8 committed there are regul&ly communicated the 'native Greeks were of such a bloody nature that they .-.r-to you by the report which the Commandant General receives fogn a blot on the history of the twentieth century. Accor- . -<:-!'daily from-the wmmandmts d the Gendarmerie units. '$ ding to these mporta the number of victims, including women, -. r/ l . f_ --,"3i is children, old men adsick and infirm people, massacred atL c- . - You muat certainly have remarked that it the Turh . who suffer the most from these events and from these crimes.
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