re the greek authorities deny even the existence of a turkish minority in article may news uiowa edu mau herky cs uiowa edu mau napoleon writes a few thousand yup yes there are a few thousand left today after years of opression by turkey i expect better from you mau no i take that back i don t the treaty on the exchange of the turkish and greek minorities left no greek minority in turkiye except a few thousand greeks in istanbul turkiye is no longer an obstacle for pan hellenism although the material basis of greek policy is no longer visible there is a residue which seems to unite the pelopenisians the greeks who came from asia minor the greeks who are originally from the islands of the marmara sea or those who live in the numerous aegean islands this residue is also recognizable in the contemporary greek government as far a greek turkish wars are conserned i find it funny that a so informed turk like you forgot to mention the balkan wars not a chance greece lost in each and every war conducted solely between greece and turkiye in the morea in in thessaly in and in anatolia in after the ottoman empire lost world war i the british landed in a greek army in izmir to exterminate the people of turkiye are you suffering from a severe case of amnesia the tired and defeated turks rose up formed a national force under the leadership of mustafa kemal and on august they annihilated the bulk of the greek army turkiye is no longer an obstacle for pan hellenism besides greece lost in each and every war conducted solely between greece and turkiye in the morea in in thessaly in and in anatolia in especially the greek defeat referred to as the tragedy of anatolia by the greeks had momentous effects on greek mind and behaviour i find it curious that a historian like you forgot the wars that demolished the ottoman empire i love people who don t read and then spout myths as evidence where were greeks in and i guess they were busy with greek efforts to decimate the jewish population of salonica culminated in and those jews who survived these assaults in southeastern europe fled particularly to salonica whose jewish population increased substantially as a result from in to in more than half the total population though even there increased persecution by local greeks led many jews to flee elsewhere in the ottoman empire particularly to the great port of izmir despite all the pressure from ottomans and foreign jews alike the ritual murders and other assaults by christians on jews went on and on greek efforts to decimate the jewish population of salonica culminated in and following greek conquest of salonica during the first balkan war when many of its jews were either killed or terrorized into leaving though greece was obligated by the post world war i treaties to allow jews and other minorities to use their own languages in education and to practice their religions without hindrance a law was issued in which forbad all inhabitants from working on sunday stimulating a new jewish exodus as it was intended to do between and there was a series of anti semitic riots in salonica with the cambel quarter where most of the remaining jews lived being burned to the ground this was followed by regulations requiring the use of greek and prohibiting hebrew and judea spanish in the jewish schools a start was made also on expropriating the land of the principal jewish cemetery in salonica for use by the new university in order to derive the jews out by killing and driving out large numbers of jews the greeks left a substantial greek majority in the city for the first time and starting salonica jewry on the way to its final decimation by the nazis during the occupation of greece starting in salonica and izmir of course were not the only places of refuge for jewish refugees entering the empire during its last century of existence istanbul edirne and other parts of rumelia and anatolia received thousands more nor were jews the only refugees received and helped by the government of the sultan thousands of muslims accompanied them in flight from similar persecutions wherever balkan christian states gained independence or expanded the russian conquest of the crimea and the caucasus starting in the late eighteenth century and particularly during and after the crimean war combined with the same independence movements in southeastern europe that had caused so much suffering and flight among its jews caused thousands of helpless ill and poverty stricken muslim refugees to accompany them into the ever shrinking boundaries of the ottoman empire with the istanbul government struggling mightly but vainly to house and feed them as best it could from to as many as crimean tatars circassians and other muslims from north and east of the black sea had entered anatolia alone as many as more came during the next twenty years while refugees entered in as a result of the ottoman wars with russia and the balkan states with an equal number gaining refuge in the european portions of the empire robert mantran la structure sociale de la communaute juive de salonqiue a la fin du dix neuvieme siecle rh no nehama vii joseph nehama salonica to aiu paris no may aiu archives i c and no january aiu archives i c describing daily battles between jewish and greek children in the streets of salonica benghiat director of ecole moise allatini salonica to aiu paris no december aiu archives i c describing greek attacks on jews boycotts of jewish shops and manufacturers and greek press campaigns leading to blood libel attacks cohen ecole secondaire moise allatini salonica to aiu paris no december aiu archives i c describes a week of terror that followed the greek army occupation of salonica in with the soldiers pillaging the jewish quarters and destroying jewish synagogues accompanied by what he described as an explosion of hatred by local greek population against local jews and muslims mizrahi president of the aiu at salonica reported to the aiu paris no july aiu archives i c that it was not only the irregulars comitadjis that massacred pillaged and burned the army soldiers the chief of police and the high civil officials also took an active part in the horrors moise tovi salonica to aiu paris no august aiu archives i c describes the greek pillage of the jewish quarter during the night of august aiu alliance israelite universelle paris serdar argic we closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as ways of escape for the turks and then proceeded in the work of extermination ohanus appressian in soviet armenia today there no longer exists a single turkish soul sahak melkonian
