IAGS Officially Recognizes Greek Genocide (1914-1922)

[akritas]

In a groundbreaking move, the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) has voted overwhelmingly to recognize the genocides inflicted on Assyrian and Greek populations of the Ottoman Empire between 1914 and 1923.

The resolution passed with the support of fully 83 percent of IAGS members who voted. The resolution (text below) declares that "it is the conviction of the International Association of Genocide Scholars that the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide against Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks." It "calls upon the government of Turkey to acknowledge the genocides against these populations, to issue a formal apology, and to take prompt and meaningful steps toward restitution."

In 1997, the IAGS officially recognized the Armenian genocide. The current resolution notes that while activist and scholarly efforts have resulted in widespread acceptance of the Armenian genocide, there has been "little recognition of the qualitatively similar genocides against other Christian minorities of the Ottoman Empire ." Assyrians, along with Pontian and Anatolian Greeks, were killed on a scale equivalent in per capita terms to the catastrophe inflicted on the Armenian population of the empire -- and by much the same methods, including mass executions, death marches, and starvation.

IAGS member Adam Jones drafted the resolution, and lobbied for it along with fellow member Thea Halo, whose mother Sano survived the Pontian Greek genocide. In an address to the membership at the IAGS conference in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in July 2007, Jones paid tribute to the efforts of "representatives of the Greek and Assyrian communities ... to publicize and call on the present Turkish government to acknowledge the genocides inflicted on their populations," which had made Asia Minor their home for millennia. The umbrella term "Assyrians" includes Chaldeans, Nestorians, Syriacs, Aramaens, Eastern Orthodox Syrians, and Jacobites.

"The overwhelming backing given to this resolution by the world's leading genocide scholars organization will help to raise consciousness about the Assyrian and Greek genocides," Jones said on December 15. "It will also act as a powerful counter to those, especially in present-day Turkey , who still ignore or deny outright the genocides of the Ottoman Christian minorities."

The resolution stated that "the denial of genocide is widely recognized as the final stage of genocide, enshrining impunity for the perpetrators of genocide, and demonstrably paving the way for future genocides." The Assyrian population of Iraq , for example, remains highly vulnerable to genocidal attack. Since 2003, Iraqi Assyrians have been exposed to severe persecution and "ethnic cleansing"; it is believed that up to half the Assyrian population has fled the country.

FULL TEXT OF THE IAGS RESOLUTION:

WHEREAS the denial of genocide is widely recognized as the final stage of genocide, enshrining impunity for the perpetrators of genocide, and demonstrably paving the way for future genocides;

WHEREAS the Ottoman genocide against minority populations during and following the First World War is usually depicted as a genocide against Armenians alone, with little recognition of the qualitatively similar genocides against other Christian minorities of the Ottoman Empire ;

BE IT RESOLVED that it is the conviction of the International Association of Genocide Scholars that the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide against Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Association calls upon the government of Turkey to acknowledge the genocides against these populations, to issue a formal apology, and to take prompt and meaningful steps toward restitution.

sources:
Greek Americans News Agency
International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS)

[olvios]

The cancer named Kemal is proven to have been a Hitler of the 1900's or rather the original Hitler.

[olvios]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...523846,00.html

Compare the years it took for the Jewish community to achieve recognition ,apologies and compensation.Greeks,Assyrians & Armenians have achieved very little to nothing yet and haven't even gotten to working together yet.
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Συγκρινετε τωρα ποσα χρονια πηρε,που ουσιαστικα δεν εχει φτασει ουτε στο 1 εκατοστο της αναγνωρισης του Εβραικου ολωκαυτοματος.


Απο το 1965-69 μεχρι σημερα
"Germany has paid out over €63.2 billion -- including €1.5 billion in direct payments to the Israeli government."

63,2 ΔΙΣεκατομμυρια ευρω και συγνωμες μαζι με αλλα πολλα.

Και αλλαγες σε θεματα πολιτικης και σε πολλους αλλους τομεις.

Ενω σημερα Ελληνες,Αρμενιοι και Ασσυριοι ακομα δεν καταφεραν παρα ελαχιστα.Ουτε καν ενωνονται για να καταγγειλουν την γενοκτονια των χριστιανικων πληθυσμων που αποτελει 1 γεγονος.Δρουν ξεχωριστα η καθολου.

Οι τουρκοι το αρνουνται και εχουν και τον Κεμαλ σε κορνιζα σαν ΘΕΟ.Αν το εκαμνε αυτο η Γερμανια θα ειχε φαει πηρυνικα και αποκλεισμο σε ολα εκτος απο αερα.

Φυσικα ο Θεος της τουρκιας το εμετικο καρκινωμα που λεγεται Κεμαλ δεν αποκαθηλωνεται.

[Nikephoros]

I do not think we need these kind of useless declarations. What we need is real scholars to make excellent studies either translated into English or in English. This is something we do not have.

We also need a Greek government and institutions willing to fight for Greek history against the Turkish state which makes lots of grants in the USA and the world to spread its unique official history which is very hostile to Greeks.

[Nikephoros]

Some of the books cited in that report which I read or have at least looked up in a library:

I generally regard it to be true, but no footnotes and it does not rely on unimpeachable sources: Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City

This is mostly fictionalized account written by Thea Halo many years after the events that her mother Sano Halo experienced, not her: Not Even My Name. New York: Picador USA, 2000.

The author used to affirm the Armenian genocide in the 1961 version and redacted his position to reflect the Turkish official thesis, he never mentions any Greek genocide: The Making of Modern Turkey. London: Oxford University Press, 1961.

Crap, I can scan a page to show how crap it is if another Greek will OCR it . Just PM, me if no Greek PMs me then I will do nothing. Harry Tsirkinidis, At Last We Uprooted Them: The Genocide of Greeks of Pontos, Thrace, and Asia Minor, through the French Archives. Thessaloniki: Kyriakidis Bros, 1999.

I have read Greek newspaper articles of the author talking about this work, it is the only work that sounds like it could be interesting or scholarly. But I feel no Greek on this forum will ever buy it, scan it or read it, cite it. THe author said in the aritcles I read that it was suppossed to be published by the Greek Parliament but he had to find an alternative method because for reasons of Greek-Turk friendship they could not publish it that way. Constantinos Fotiadis (ed.), The Genocide of the Pontus Greeks. 14 vols. Herodotus, 2004.

To be clear there is nothing to prove a Greek genocide to anyone that I have come across.