The Greek Genocide: 289,000-1.5 Million (jan 1, 1914 – jan 1, 1923)

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The Greek Genocide was carried out by the Ottoman Empire (Committee of Union and Progress party, 1914-1918) and the Turkish Nationalist Movement under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1919-1922) against the Ottoman Greeks (Pontic and Anatolian Greeks) between 1914 and 1923 (Treaty of Lausanne and population exchange), with an estimated death toll between 289,000 (lower academic estimates) and 1,500,000 (Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimate).

The Ottoman Empire and Turkish Nationalist forces also engaged in forced deportations and death marches, mass expulsions, forced labor battalions (with 80-90% mortality rates), rape and sexual slavery, forced conversion to Islam, village destruction, starvation campaigns, arbitrary executions, and destruction of Greek Orthodox cultural, historical and religious monuments.

It has been labeled as genocide by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS, December 2007 resolution with 83% support), the Armenian Parliament (2015), Greece (Hellenic Parliament recognized Pontus region in 1994 and Asia Minor in 1998), Cyprus, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United States (various state recognitions), and numerous genocide scholars including Adam Jones, Constantine G. Hatzidimitriou.

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By late 1922, most Greeks of Asia Minor had either fled or been killed, with remaining Greeks transferred to Greece under the 1923 population exchange which formalized the exodus and barred refugee return

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