The Great Betrayal: Economic Imperialism & the Destruction of Christian Communities in Asia Minor by Edward Hale Bierstadt The Great Betrayal was first published in 1924. It exposes the rivalries and competing economic interests of the Allied Powers in the aftermath of World War I, how the Allied Powers failed to demand from Turkey the […]
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The Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center is pleased to announce a new book, Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923. Edited by George N. Shirinian. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2017. 433 pages. The final years of the Ottoman Empire were catastrophic for its non-Turkish, non-Muslim minorities. From 1913
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The subject of this book concerns what happened to one of these Greek communities, the city of Smyrna, widely considered to be the cultural and demographic center of the Hellenic presence in Asia Minor. From 1919 on it was also the center of the Greek administration sanctioned by the Entente at the end of the
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The Genocide of the Greeks of Asia Minor, Pontos and Eastern Thrace Remembered The 100 th Commemoration of the “Great Catastrophe” Symposium; A Great Success Skokie – A sellout crowd of more than 350 participants attended the 100 th Commemoration of “The Great Catastrophe,” held on April 7 th . The Illinois Holocaust Museum and
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Greek Genocide Film Stirs Emotions and Hardens Resolve Chicago–The long awaited documentary, “Lethal Nationalism: Genocide of the Greeks/1913- 1923,” drew a capacity crowd of more than 750 invited guests to its premiere at the Pickwick Theater in suburban Park Ridge. A host of dignitaries also were in attendance, including the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Nathanael, along
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Bill Kurtis is the narrator of the documentary
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100 year after the Greek genocide, article by Endy Zemenides posted in the news paper Kathimerini, June 3, 2019. Raphael Lemkin, the lawyer and scholar who coined the term “genocide” and initiated the Genocide Convention, was working on a multi-volume history of such massacres at the time he passed in 1959. He had planned five
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In never before seen archival footage and dramatic re-enactments, Lethal Nationalism : Genocide of the Greeks 1913-1923 tells the story of one of the most tragic decade in Greek history of the brutal annihilation of Greeks in Asia Minor ….
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