Deportation routes during the period 1913-1922. View the list and map here.

Beginning in 1913, the Ottoman Government instituted a program of deportation that involved the forceful and often violent mass movement of large numbers of native Greeks living in the Ottoman Empire. The Ecumenical Patriarchate kept figures of these deportations and published them in 1919. According to the Patriarchate, by 1918, 774,235 Greeks were deported throughout Ottoman Turkey. While some Greeks were able to return to their homes following the defeat of Ottoman Turkey in the First World War, many of the Greeks deported to the interior of Turkey were never seen again. The Patriarchate figures appear below.

 A. Eastern Thrace

B. Asia Minor (excl. Pontus)

 C. Pontus

Total

Ecumenical Patriarchate, Mavri Vivlos, Diogmon ke Martirion tou en Turkia Ellinismou 1914-1918 (Black Book, The Persecution and Martyrdom of the Greeks of Turkey 1914-1918).. Constantinople 1919, pp. 409-413.