The First Persecution of the Greeks in Eastern Thrace (1913-1918).
Vasiliki Tsakoglou
Thessaloniki 2011.

The following volume focusses on the first phase of the persecution of the Greeks of Eastern from 1913-1918. The study began as the author's postgraduate research at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Thessaloniki and concluded with its publication in 2010. The study fills a void in the historiography of the Greek Genocide in the region of Eastern Thrace.

The author divides the persecution of Greeks into four parts:

1: From the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 until the Balkan Wars. The persecution here was isolated and included expulsions, murders, confiscation of property and economic boycotts etc.

2: From the Ottoman reoccupation of Adrianople (Edirne) in 1913 until the entry of the Ottoman Empire into the First World War in November 1914. During this phase, the persecution of Greeks intensified and was conducted in a more brutal manner.

3: From the Ottoman Empire's entry into WW1 (November 1914) until the conclusion of WW1 (November 1918). During this phase the persecution was more widespread and included Greeks of Asia Minor with mass murders, looting, burning of villages and deportations of hundred of thousands of Greeks to the interior.

4: The Kemalist phase began around 1919 and continued the persecution.

The author's study only focusses on the second and third parts.