Bibliography

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Angelou, Michail. Asia Minor Tragedy: An Eye-Witness Testimony. Triti Opsi, Athens 2013.

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Baltazzi, G. The Turkish Atrocities in Asia Minor and in the Pontus: Speech Given Before the Greek Third National Assembly. Athens 1922.

Barton, James Levi. Turkish Atrocities: Statements of American Missionaries on the Destruction of Christian Communities in Ottoman Turkey, 1915-1917. Gomidas, 1998.

Barton, James Levi. Story of Near East Relief (1915-1930): An Interpretation. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1930.

Baum, Wilhelm. The Christian Minorities in Turkey. Kitab-Verlag Klagenfurt-Wien, 2006.

Bierstadt, Edward H. The Great Betrayal: A Survey of the Near East Problem. New York: R. M. McBride & company, 1924.

Brown, Carroll N, and Ion, Theodore P. Persecution of the Greeks in Turkey since the beginning of the European War. Oxford University Press, 1918.

Center of Asia Minor Studies. The Exodus, Volumes A, B, C, D, E. Athens 1980, 2004, 2013, 2015, 2018. 

Central Council of Pontus, Black Book: The Tragedy of Pontus 1914-1922. Athens 1922.

Compton, Carl C. The Morning Cometh. New York: Karatzas Publisher, 1986.

Couzinos, Efthimios N. Twenty-Three Years in Asia Minor. Publishers' graphics, LLC, IL.

Delegation of the Pan-Pontic Congress, The Turkish Atrocities in the Black Sea Territories: Copy of Letter of His Grace Germanos, Lord Archbishop of Amassia and Samsoun. Norbury, Natzio and Co, Manchester 1919.

Diamantopoulos Vasilis, A Prisoner of the Turks (1922-1923), Athens 1977.

Dobkin, Marjorie H. Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City. New York, NY: Newmark Press, 1998.

Ecumenical Patriarchate, Persecution of the Greeks in Turkey 1914-1918Constantinople, 1919. The Hesperia Press.

Ecumenical Patriarchate. Black Book: The Expulsion and Martyrdom of the Greeks of Turkey, 1914-1918. Constantinople 1919.

Ecumenical Patriarchate, The Black Book of the Sufferings of the Greek People in Turkey from the Armistice to the end of 1920. Constantinople Press of the Patriarchate, 1920.

Eliou et al. Persecution and Extermination of the Communities of Macri and Livissi (1914-1918). Imprimerie Chaix, Rue Bergère, Paris 1919.

Emmanuelidis, Emmanuel. The Last Years of the Ottoman Empire. Athens 1924.

Enepekides, Polychronis. Οι Διωγμοί των Ελλήνων του Πόντου [The Persecution of the Greeks of Pontus], Syllogos Pontion Argonautai Komninoi, 1962.

Faltaits, Kostas. The Genocide of the Greeks in Turkey: Survivor Testimonies from the Nicomedia (Izmit) Massacres of 1920-1921. Cosmos, 2016.

Fotiadis, Constantinos, ed. The Genocide of the Pontus Greeks. 14 vols. Herodotus, 2004.

Gaunt, David. MassacresResistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I, Gorgias Press, 2006.

Gavriilidis, Antonios. Η Μαύρη Εθνική Συμφορά του Πόντου 1914-1922 [The Dark National Tragedy of Pontus 1914-1922]. Athens 1924. 

Ghazarian, Vatche. The Post-WWI Rise of Turkish Nationalism and Resumption of Genocidal Policies: A Collection of Prime Sources Documenting the Treatment of Armenians and Greeks in Turkey. Mayreni publishing, 2023.

Halo, Thea. Not Even My Name. New York: Picador USA, 2000.

HatzidimitriouConstantine GAmerican Accounts Documenting the Destruction of Smyrna by the Kemalist Turkish Forces, Sep 1922. Aristide d Caratzas, 2005.

Hatzigeorgiou, Christos. Το Ορτάκιοϊ Βιθυνίας - Αι σφαγαί και η ξεθεμελίωσις αυτών [Ortakoy, Bithynia: The Massacres and Uprooting], Athens 1965.

Hinton, Alexander L, and La Pointe, Thomas, and Irvin-Erickson, Douglas. Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, MemoryRutgers University Press, 2013.

Hofmann, Tessa, ed. and Bjornlund, Matthias, ed. and Meichenetsidis, Vasileios, ed. The Genocide of the Ottoman Greeks. Aristide Caratzas, 2012.

Hofmann, Tessa, ed. Verfolgung, Vertreibung und Vernichtung der Christen im Osmanischen Reich 1912-1922. Münster: LIT, 2004. (pp. 177-221 on Pontian Greeks)

Horton, George. The Blight of Asia: An Account of the Systematic Extermination of Christian Populations by Mohammedans and of the Culpability of Certain Great Powers; With a True Story of the Burning of Smyrna. Indianopolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1926.

Ihrig, Stefan. Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination. Belknap Press, 2014.

Kapsi, Yianni. 1922 Η Μαύρη Βίβλος [1922 The Black Bible], Livani Publishers, 1992.

Kazan, Elia. America America, Stein and Day, 1962.

King, William H. Turkish Atrocities in Asia Minor: Speech of Hon. William H. King of  Utah in the Senate of the United States, Dec 22, 1921. Washington 1922.

Kontogeorge-Kostos, Sofia. Before the Silence: Archival News Reports of the Christian Holocaust the Begs to be Remembered. Gorgias Press, 2010.

Kyriakides, N.G. The Tragedy of the Sea of Marmora. Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor, New York, 1918?

Lepsius ,Johannes. Archives du genocide des Armeniens. Paris: Fayard, 1986.

Lewis, Bernard. The Making of Modern Turkey. London: Oxford University Press, 1961.

Liman von Sanders, Otto. Five Years in Turkey. United States Naval Institute, 1927. 

Llewellyn Smith, Michael. Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919-1922. London: Allen Lane, 1973.

London Committee of Unredeemed Greeks, The Liberation of the Greek People in Turkey. Norbury, Natzio & Co Ltd, Manchester, London 1919.

Lovejoy, Esther Pohl. Certain Samaritans. The Macmillan Company, 1933.

Manchester League of Unredeemed Hellenes, Turkey's Crimes: Hellenism in Turkey. Manchester : Norbury, Natzio & Co., 1919.

Marriott, J.A.R. The Eastern Question: A Study in European Diplomacy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940.

Midlarsky, Manus I. The Killing Trap. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Milton, Giles. Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922. The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance. Sceptre, 2009.

Morgenthau, Henry Sr. Ambassador Morgenthau's Story. Garden City, N.Y.: Page & Company, 1918. Also published by the Armenian General Benevolent Union of America, 1974.

Morgenthau, Henry Sr. I Was Sent to Athens. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1929.

Morgenthau, Henry Sr. An International Drama. London: Jarrolds Ltd., 1930.

Morris, Benny and Ze'evi, Dror. The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924. Harvard University Press, 2021.

De Murat. Jean. The Great Extirpation of Hellenism and Christianity in Asia Minor: The Historic and Systematic Deception of World Opinion Concerning the Hideous Christianity's Uprooting of 1922. Miami, Fla.: [s.n.], (Athens [Greece]: A. Triantafillis) 1999.

Murray, Arthur D. Black Sea: A Naval Officer's Near East Experience. Edited by Renee Heideman. Kindle Digital, 2014.

Oeconomos, Lysimachos. The Martyrdom of Smyrna and Eastern Christendom: A File of Overwhelming Evidence, Denouncing the Misdeeds of the Turks in Asia Minor and Showing Their Responsibility for the Horrors of Smyrna. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1922.

Oeconomos Lysimachos. The Tragedy of the Christian Near East. The Anglo-Hellenic League, London 1923.

L'extermination des Chrétiens d'Orient: faits, documents et témoignages anglais et américains. Thévoz Publisher, 1922.

Papadopoulos, Alexander.  Persecutions of the Greeks in Turkey before the European War: On the Basis of Official Documents. New York: Oxford University Press, 1919.

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Puaux, René. Les derniers Jours de Smyrne. Paris, 1923.

Puaux, René. La Mort de Smyrne. Édition de la revue des Balkans.Paris, 1922.

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Rendel, George W. Memorandum by Mr. Rendel on Turkish Massacres and Persecutions of Minorities since the Armistice. British Foreign Office Report, 1922. FO 371/7876. X/PO9194.

Rummel, Rudolph J. Death by Government. Transaction Publishers, 1997.

Rummel, Rudolph J. Statistics of Democide, Chapter 5, "Statistics of Turkey's Democide — Estimates, Calculations and Sources.”

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Shenk, Robert. America's Black Sea Fleet. Naval Institute Press, 2012.

Shenk, R, ed. and Koktzoglou, S, ed. The Greek Genocide in American Naval War Diaries, University of New Orleans Press, 2020.

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Shirinian, George N, ed. Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks, 1913-1923. Berghahn Books, 2017.

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Solomonidis, Victoria. Greece in Asia Minor, 1919-1922. C. Hurst and Co. Publishers, 2010.

Soteriou, Dido. Farewell Anatolia. Translated by Fred A. Reed. Athens: Kedros, 1991.

Stuermer, Harry. Two War Years in Constantinople: Sketches of German and Young Turkish Ethics and Politics. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1917.

Suny, Ronald G, ed. and Gocek, Fatma M, ed. and Naimark, Norman M, ed. A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman EmpireOxford University Press, USA. 2011.

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Tusan, Michelle. Smyrna's Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide and the Birth of the Middle East. University of California Press, 2012.

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Williams, John. Deutschland über Allah! Germany, Gallipoli and The Great War,  Australian Scholarly Publishing 2016.

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YeghiayanVartkesBritish reports on Ethnic Cleansing in Anatolia 1919-1922: The Armenian-Greek Section. Center for Armenian Remembrance (CAR), 2007.

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Filmography

1922. Directed by Nikos Koundouros (1978).
This film 1922 is a portrayal of events during the final phase of the Greek Genocide, and in particular the events following the Smyrna Holocaust in September 1922.

America America. Directed by Elias Kazan (1963).  
The movie begins in the 1890's around the time of the Hamidian Massacres when Armenians and other non-Muslim groups were being persecuted in Turkey. The movie provides an insight into the treatment of non-Turkic minorities in Ottoman Turkey just prior to the genocide.

 

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