Mr Hoft arrives at Van. The Turkish government creates the forced labor battalions. By this method of the enforced labor battalions 400.000 Greeks were exterminated by hunger, hardship, maltreatment and deprivation. The Turks declare persecution against the Greek inhabitants of the Makri region of the South-West Asia Minor. Many are killed.
Persecution is followed by plunders, violations and robberies.
Plunder of houses and shops follows. Thousands fled from their ancestral homes to Greece. By order of the Turkish government, the region of Visii and part of the Saranda Eklisiae is evacuated. 19.000 Creeks are exiled in Anatolia and their properties looted. According to the Ecumenical Patriarchate records,119.940 Greeks were expelled from East Thrace.