The massacre of Phocaea occurred in June 1914, as part of the ethnic cleansing policies of the Ottoman Empire that included exile, massacre and deportations. It was perpetrated by irregular Turkish bands against the predominantly ethnic Greek town of Phocaea, modern Foça, in the east coast of the Aegean Sea. The massacre was part of a wider anti-Greek campaign of genocide launched by the Young Turk Ottoman authorities, which included boycott, intimidation, forced deportations and mass killings; and was one of the worst attacks during the summer of 1914.
Old Phocaea in flames, during the massacre perpetrated by Turkish irregulars
Turkish Cretan irregulars with booty, while some buildings of Old Phocaea are in flames and the Greeks await for departure, picture taken by archaeologist Félix Sartiaux
Phocaea or Phokaia was an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia. Greek colonists from Phocaea founded the colony of Massalia in 600 BC, Emporion in 575 BC and Elea in 540 BC.
The theatre of Phocaea
Stater coin from Phocaea with Griffin head; Circa 580 BC.[citation needed]
Coinage of Phokaia, Ionia, circa 478–387 BC. Possible portrait of Satrap Tissaphernes, with satrapal headress.
Electrum coinage of Phocaea, 340-335 BC.