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2️⃣”It was instigated by two successive governments of the Ottoman Empire; i.e. the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) party, and the Turkish Nationalist Movement of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.”
3️⃣”The Greek Genocide (or Ottoman Greek Genocide) refers to the systematic extermination of the native Greek subjects of the Ottoman Empire before, during and after World War I (1914-1923).”
1/4 An extreme rare and widely unknown event of #humanity during the #SmyrnaHolocaust. In #Smyrna, now #Izmir the #Greek and #Armenian #Christian residents were forced to the docks to escape, many though met their deaths, the #Japanese ship Tokei Maru was one of the first to help 
2/4 At the time, some Allied warships were in the harbor, along with many merchant ships. But most of them refused to pick up refugees. Amidst all the chaos, a #Japanese freighter was reported to have unloaded all its precious cargo to take on as many refugees as it could
3/4Tokei Maru rescued many #Greeks and #Armenians in the face of Chaos, loss of cargo and reported threats. The bravery of the Tokei Maru and her crew is to be admired, an act of #humanityoverhatred. Smyrna was almost completely burned and it's #Christians exiled and exterminated
1/6 Nureddin Pasha was a Turkish military officer during the First World War. He took part in both the #Greek and #Armenian Genocides. He was directly responsible for ordering the deportation of Greeks from Pontos, Ionia, and southern Anatolia.He also oversaw the Smyrna massacres
2/6 His brutality was noticed even by the Turks, The Grand National assembly decided to send Nureddin Pasha to a commission of enquiry and to put him on trial, twice. Mustafa Kemal intervened twice on his behalf, he then appointed him Military Governor of #Smyrna (Gavur Izmir)
3/6 In #Smyrna, Nureddin Pasha summoned the Greek archbishop #Chrysostomos of Smyrna and accused him of treason. Nureddin Pasha pushed him out of the residence and invited and incited a Turkish mob to deal with him. He was #lynched to death while a french observer documented it.
