History Class

Submitted by Kuvayi Milliye (Turkey), Sep 8, 2014 at 11:10

Promoting their own invasions and the wars they lost as the massacres happened to them is the root of the Greek character. Who invaded Turkey between 1919-1922 after the approval of the British during the Paris conference in 1919?

--- McCarthy has unearthed a horrifying and extremely important fact that in the course of the century between the Greek war of independence and World War I, the Ottoman Empire suffered 5.5 million dead and 5 million refugees. He deems this as Europe's largest lost of life and emigration since the Thirty Years War.

--- The Muslim mortality for Western Anatolia alone was 1.246.068 between 1912-1922, and of this figure, 640.000 died as a result of the Greek-Turkish War.

(Justin McCarthy, Death and Exile)

--- According to the reports given by Europeans, Greeks killed 20.000 Turks at first step in Izmir. They turned the entire region to ruins. They burned the villages, killed, raped women and children.

(British Foreign Policy Documents, Page 723, Number 478, 9th of August, 1919)

Who killed these people? They committed suicide maybe.

Burning the regions they occupied was the traditional policy of the Greek army.

- Greeks Burned and Pillaged Turkey.

(New York Times, September 27th 1922)

- A Greek soldier tells, Prince Andreas ordered us to burn everything.

- A photographer in Greek army tells, we are burning everywhere we leave, its a horrible sight, August 30th, 1921.

- Nikos Vasilikos tells, some of us are happy like Neron who burned Rome.The orders are clear. Burn anything that you cant carry. Including the old, sick, crippled, children in those villages.

(Greek Researcher, Writer/Journalist Tasos Kostopulos Revealed The Barbarism and Murders of Greek Army in Anatolia Before Turkish War of Independence in His Book Called, 1919-1922 War and Ethnic Cleansing)

--- As Greece's fortunes reversed and their army was in retreat, they carried out their well known scorched earth policy, culminating in the fire of Izmir that the Turks illogically still get the blame for.

(Justin McCarthy, Death and Exile)

--- The ruins of buildings of the Turkish population burnt by the Greeks in their retreat.

(John Dewey, The Turkish Tragedy, Published in The New Republic, November 12th 1928)

Real history and archives are more accurate than the horror stories and murder fantasies of the Orthodox church.

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