PERSECUTIONS OF THE GREEKS IN TURKEY SINCE THE ...

54 PERSECUTIONS OF THE GREEKS
without being burnt, such as that of Eliazkioi, Adreanta,
Tekekioi, Cadikioi, etc., has been put to auction by the
Government, and in a few days, it will be sold to the
highest bidder; the proceeds of this sale will be retained
by the Government, while the owners of the tobacco are
dying in the interior from hunger."
" The deportations of men from Samsoun continue.
Not a single man is left in Paphra, while the women and
children who have been left there are suffering dreadfully
for lack of everything. The patriarchal family of
Haji-Ioannou Gelkentzoglou, who is the founder and
the pillar of the Greek community there, has been exterminated
; his three sons, his grandchildren and his nephews
have been sent to Castamoni, while he, a man of ninety
years of age, who for forty years was a member both
of the Municipal Council and the Court, and who has
served the Government in various ways, has been deported,
poor unfortunate, and is now temporarily living
in Samsoun, though he is destined to die in the interior
of the country. The Gelkentzoglou family was one of
the most prominent of our district."
" The same things happened in the districts of Neo-
Caesarea, of Phatza and of Tsarshamba. Consequently,
if one takes into consideration that recently even those
who have paid the exemption fee have been taken into
the army, one. can conclude that no male person has been
left in the place."
" In the meantime, the destruction continues. The
evacuated villages of Ada-Tepe, Yelidje, Karaghiol, have
been burned."
"Near Kourouk-Koktje, where the military camp of
the Pasha has been established, the villages have suffered
severely; many women and children have been killed,
the village of Erikli, among other villages, has been
burned, and the population has been sent to the interior
of the country in very bad condition."
" Worse things have happened at Paphra, where dur-