5 Jul 1919: Tells how Turks Tortured Greeks, New York Times

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   TELLS HOW TURKS
        TORTURED GREEKS.

   Prelate's Letter Describes
     Atrocities in Hellenic Terri-
          tories of Black Sea.

  POPULATION IS SCATTERED

Declares Deportations into Snowy
  Covered Lands Replaces Openly
          Brutal Outrages.



   Atrocities perpetrated by the Turks
against the Greeks in the Black Sea
territories are described in a letter of
His Grace Germanos,  Lord Archbishop
of Amassia and Samsoun, in a letter
sent from Constantinople to M.Con-
stantinides, President of the Pont-Euxine
Unredeemed Greeks Committee. A copy
of the letter was received from London
by Sava Kehaya,  President of the
Greek-American Pontus League, 120
Broadway.
   The letter follows in part:
"Euxinus Pontus has undergone the
greatest calamities and disasters, not
only from the all-powerful Turkish
party of 'Union and Progress', but also
from all the Turkish people. The Turk-
ish people, after having hacked to death
a million Armenians, organised and are
still organising according to the same
methods, similar outrages.  They were
led, but only according to their own in-
stincts, by the Government of Talaat,
Enver,  Djemal, and their accomplices."

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The New York Times. July 5, 1919.  Source

 

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