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36 PERSECUTIONS OF THE GREEKS greater part of the inhabitants of Malgara are in jail, where they endure great sufferings. The representative of the Bishop and 23 prominent men were taken to Adrianople, and on their way beaten by the gendarmes. April 1915. Two Greeks were hung in Adrianople wtihout any reason.
PART II DEPORTATIONS EN MASSE THE abolition of the privileges of the Greek Church, the drafting of Christians into the army, the conversions to Mohammedanism, the commandeerings and the murders of the Greeks in Turkey, constituted, so to speak, the work preparatory to their annihilation, and this was completed by the sixth measure which was applied, namely, the deportations en masse. This was designed in order to bring about the complete annihilation of the Greek nation by the devastation of the flourishing Greek communities in the Ottoman Empire. This measure which was first applied in the Gallipoli Peninsula and the Hellespont, on the pretext of military necessity, was quickly extended to all the settlements along the coast and to the islands in the sea of Marmora, which are inhabited by Greeks. The towns of Cydonia (Aivali) and Amissos (Samsoun) and, generally, the settlements along the coasts, except the two great centers, Constantinople and Smyrna, where there is a compact Greek population, were reduced to ruins. This measure was taken in consequence of a decision of the Young Turk Committee, and was put into execution in the year 1915. The Greek Legation at Constantinople, by a communication dated June 15, 1915,, No. 3501 (Ministerial Archives, No. 7065), informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the decisions which had been taken at Constantinople for the forcible conversion of Greeks to the Mohammedan faith by mixed marriages between Turks and Greek women who had 37
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Page 10 and 11: viii - INTRODUCTION its old ideas.
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Page 25 and 26: CHAPTER II COMPULSORY ENLISTMENT OF
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Page 37 and 38: CHAPTER IV CONVERSIONS TO MOHAMMEDA
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