From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish,talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.europe,soc.history
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Subject: About persistent Greek attacks against Muslims and Jews.
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 19:25:10 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <1992Dec13.023629.11403@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gd8f@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Gregory  Dandulakis) writes:

> Don't be so sure lady. History hasn't finished yet. We'll have more
> movies ahead of us.

And this is just the beginning, "dandy"; you ain't seen nothin' yet.
The unspeakable crimes of your grandfathers and fathers will not
go unpunished.

  <<The leader of the Ashkenazi community of Corlu complained to the
  president of AIU [Alliance Israelite Universelle] in 1902 about
  persistent Greek attacks against its Jewish quarter:

    ''The fanatic Greeks of our city, as of other places in Thrace,
    have the habit of, contrary to the spirit of real Christianity,
    making a replica of Judas Iscariote and of burning it on the night
    of Holy Saturday. They construct a wooden figure, cover it with
    clothing which they claim is that of the ancient Jews, and they
    burn it publicly in the middle of a multitude of the ignorant and
    the fanatic. It often happens that this multitude, already excited
    by the tales of the suffering of Christ that has been made to them
    at the Church, is exaulted at the appearance of the execution of he
    who is supposed to have betrayed Christ, and works up a great anger
    against the Jews...For a long time we have known that each year,
    on such a day, they will cut off the heads and arms of the corpses
    in our cemetery and will burn them with great solemnity. We make
    no complaint about this in order not to create differences between
    the two communities. But this audacious madness of these fanatics
    has increased. We ourselves see the flames and hear the cries of
    hatred and vengeance against the Jews.''[42]>>

[42] Ashkenazi Community, Corlu, to AIU no.8783, 2 May 1902, in AIU
     Archives (Paris) II C 8, with report printed in El Tiempo of 1 May 1902.

  '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

                     'This war quickly developed into one of extermination. 
                      We closed the roads and mountain passes that might 
                      serve as ways of escape for the Tartars [Turks] and 
                      then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
                                                       (Ohanus Appressian)


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