Extermination of the Greeks?

Submitted by Mustafa (Australia), Apr 6, 2013 at 00:03

What ... extermination of the Greeks? Eleftherios Venizelos (father of modern Greece, 7 times Prime Minister between 1910 and 1933), nominating Mustafa Kemal ATATURK for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1934, despite the former having initiated the unprovoked Greco-Turkish war which resulted in over a million civilian & military deaths on both sides between 1919-1922 in current day Turkey. In more simplistic terms ... to contemplate the importance of this gesture, this would be the equivalent of (for argument sake), Israel's President Shimon Peres nominating Adolph Hitler for the Nobel Peace Award, a decade after the Holocaust.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/nomination/nomination.php?action=show&showid=2046

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