Quote Originally Posted by Bopa the Magyar
Uuuh to an outsider this seem highly confusing.
I have heard of a Hellenic geneocide aswell conducted by the Turks. Can somone clear this grey area for me?
You have to understand the chaos of the late Ottoman empire. Turkish colonies had sprung up around communities of Greeks, Armenians, and others during the 3 centuries of Ottoman rule. When Ottoman power began falling apart these groups went to war with each other, and there was little the sublime porte could or would do about it. Turkish villiage against Greek villiage. Turks against Armenians, Turks vs. Arabs. THe Armenians were ordered into Syria so that a Arab style revolt (and more violence against innocent Turkish civilians) under Russian stewartship couldn't happen in eastern Anatolia.

Anyway the "Hellenic genocide" (which is BS) was the resukt of the Greek kingdoms invasion of Anatolia in the early 20's. The revolutionary Turkish government expelled all the ethnic Greeks in Anatolia.