From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast,soc.culture.greek
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Subject: Greek Crimes in the Vilayet of Smyrna (May to July 1919).
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 19:22:29 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <5621@daily-planet.concordia.ca> athanass@cs.concordia.ca (MICHAILIDIS athanassios) writes:

>Quite interesting my frend but does your washing machine have
>a double speed cycle ?  

Have you got something around your washing machine like a gummy lump?

>In response may I add an original source about the true story. 
>Source: "Sullogos megalos den uparxei allos" by Kwstas Xamidis
>         1967, p. 210. Translated by A. Forest, 1990 Athens
>         Metaxourgeio.   

A "palik" source? You also like teddy bears?

Source: Professor Stanford J. Shaw, 'The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the
        Turkish Republic,' New York University Press, New York (1991).

 page 239:

 <<The Greek army that occupied much of southwestern Anatolia starting
   in May 1919 slaughtered thousands of Jews and Muslims in the course
   of its attack, not only during its initial landings at Izmir, but also
   in the interior during the subsequent two years, and particularly
   during its final retreat to Izmir, when it ravaged and burned Bursa
   and other towns and villages along the way. Albert Nabon, Principal
   of the AIU [Alliance Israelite Universelle] Boy's School in Izmir,
   reported to the Alliance on 6 July 1919:

        'The city was put on fire and sacked, the people dispoiled
        of all they possessed. There is no food, putting the entire
        population on general, and our co-religionists in particular,
        in danger of suffering greatly from these privations'

   going on to describe how most Jews, not only from Izmir but also from
   Greek attacks at Aydin, Bergama and Manisa, took refuge in his school,
   where they were suffering from overcrowding, lack of food, and
   medicine. [90]>>

   page 240:

   <<Jewish notables, like the Muslims, were beaten and executed, many
   Jewish homes and shops were ravaged and burned, and hundreds of Jews
   were deported to almost certain death in the countryside. As the Greek
   army retreated in panic late in the war, moreover, it burned the Jewish
   and Muslim quarters of Izmit, Manisa and Bergama, destroying synagogues,
   yeshivas and hospitals as well as homes and businesses while killing
   hundreds and forcing the remainder of the non-Christian population to
   flee in panic, ...[95]>>

[90] Similar reports came from Nabon to the AIU on 2 July 1919 (no.23/915),
     9 July 1919 (no.26/927), 12 July 1919 (no.27/932) and 14 July 1919
     (no. 28/933). In Nabon's report of 17 July 1919 (no.30/935), he stated
     that the Greeks at Aydin had burned 200 Jewish houses and 13 shops,
     had dispoiled all the local Jews of their money and property, and had
     strangled two Jews as well as driving the remainder to seek refuge
     in the local AIU school: 'At Aydin, Manisa, Tire and everywhere else,
     our Jews live in an atmosphere of suspicion by the Greek inhabitants'
     who suspect that they favor the Turks. On 23 July 1920 Nabon reported
     that all the Jews had left Izmir, the synagogue had not been burned, but
     the Greeks had taken all its valuables as well as the property of local
     Jews, and the streets were full of bodies.

[95] Univers Israelite, 2 September 1921, p.467-48, quoted in Guleryuz;
     see also Galante, Anatolie II (1939), 70-100; and 'Manissa', EJ XI,
     878-79.

  'Greek Atrocities in the Vilayet of Smyrna (May to July 1919), Inedited
  Documents and Evidence of English and French Officers,' Published by
  The Permanent Bureau of the Turkish Congress at Lausanne, Lausanne,
  Imprimerie Petter, Giesser & Held, Caroline, 5 (1919).

  pages 40-41:

  << VIOLATED MOSQUES

  All the mosques and religious institutions of Manissa, numbering
  about 150, have been violated by the Greek army, their doors were
  forced in and their floors torn up, their carpets stolen or soiled,
  their windows broken and their inside walls defaced. The worst
  damaged mosques of the town are the following:

    Servili mesdjid
    Tchatal djami
    Kenzi djami
    Mouradie
    Ak mesdjid
    Ayvaz Pacha djami
    The convents Kenzi, and Kabak Hadje
    Gune Djami
    Dilchikar
    Dere mesdjid
    Nifli Zade
    Hodjdja-djlar
    The school of Theology Sinan and the cemetery Thchatal Kabristan,
    are violated, defiled and deteriorated.>>

  page 53:

  << VILLAGES DESTROYED

   The following villages of Bergamo, one of the richest and most
   prosperous regions in the world, are completely burned and
   destroyed by the Greek hordes:

         Kirikly
         Kalarga
         Djame-Keuy
         Eminly
         Mouhadjir
         Baba-Keuy
         Hamzaly
         Korkally
         Eyry-Keuy
         Yenidje
         Kizil-Tchoukour
         Kodja-Oba
         Merkez-Kozak
         Aladjalar
         Achaghi-Kiriklar
         Rechadiye
         Tepeleni
         Chakran
         Eyri-Gueul
         Boz-Keuy
         Djoumali
         Tchenguelly. >>

Serdar Argic

                           'We closed the roads and mountain passes that 
                            might serve as ways of escape for the Turks 
                            and then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
                                                       (Ohanus Appressian)
                           'In Soviet Armenia today there no longer exists 
                            a single Turkish soul.'    (Sahak Melkonian)