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).”
4️⃣”It included massacres, forced deportations and death marches, summary expulsions, boycotts, rape, forced conversion to Islam, conscription into labor battalions, arbitrary executions, and destruction of Christian Orthodox cultural, historical and religious monuments.”
5️⃣”According to various sources, approximately 1 million Ottoman Greeks perished during this period.”
“By 1923, various sources state that around 1 million Greeks perished in the genocide.”
“By 1923, various sources state that around 1 million Greeks perished in the genocide.”
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