Since the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, its official armed and paramilitary forces have committed numerous violations of international criminal law, and are also accused of aiding and abetting
A building in Yüksekova, Hakkari Province, partly destroyed by tank shells from a Turkish operation in the 2016 Hakkari clashes [tr].
Remains of Armenians killed at the Deir ez-Zor camps, 1915
Assyrian refugees from Tyari and Tkhuma near Urmia, Iran in late 1915
Armenians fleeing Kars during the Turkish invasion of Armenia (1920)
The Greek genocide, which included the Pontic genocide, was the systematic killing of the indigenous Christian Ottoman Greek population of Anatolia because of their religion and ethnicity, which was c
Turkish war crimes
…these claims are rejected by most historians. Other ethnic groups were also attacked by the Ottoman Empire during this period, including Assyrians and Greeks, and some scholars consider those events different parts of the same policy of extermination. An estimated 250,000 Assyrian Christians (about half of…
Greek civilians mourn their dead relatives, Great Fire of Smyrna, 1922
Phocaea in flames, during the massacre perpetrated by Turkish irregulars in June 1914
Hellenism in Near East during and after World War I, showing some of the areas (Western Anatolia and Eastern Thrace) where the Greek population was concentrated. The Pontic region is not shown.
"Turks Slaughter Christian Greeks", Lincoln Daily Star, 19 October 1917