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Explaining: The responsible party for the Fire of Smyrna is unknown, as the 1977 Taksim Square massacre. Similarly Istanbul Pogrom was organised by ultra nationalist groups, not by the Turkish government. Enough??
Fixed sentence errors,removed broken links and fixed the inconsistency between the notes section and the death toll of 1922 Ayvalik massacres after a background research.The previous number (2,900)referred to the total Greek population of the town. May I?
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|[[Hakkari]]
|[[Hakkari]]
|10,000<ref Name=gaunt32>{{Harvnb|Gaunt|Beṯ-Şawoce |2006|p=32}}</ref>
|10,000<ref Name=gaunt32>{{Harvnb|Gaunt|Beṯ-Şawoce |2006|p=32}}</ref>
|[[Kurds|Kurdish]] Emirs of Buhtan, Hakkari [[Badr Khan]], and Noorallah
|[[Kurds|Kurdish]] Emirs of Buhtan, [[Badr Khan]] and Nurullah
|Christians
|Christians
|Many who were not killed were sold into slavery
|Many who were not killed were sold into slavery
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|[[Anatolia]], [[Ottoman Empire]]
|[[Anatolia]], [[Ottoman Empire]]
|100,000-300,000<ref>[[Taner Akcam|Akçam, Taner]]. ''A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility''. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006, p. 42. ISBN 0-8050-7932-7.</ref>
|100,000-300,000<ref>[[Taner Akcam|Akçam, Taner]]. ''A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility''. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006, p. 42. ISBN 0-8050-7932-7.</ref>
|[[Ottoman Empire]]/[[Young Turk]] government
|[[Ottoman Empire]]
|Christian [[Armenians in the Ottoman Empire|Armenians]] and [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]]
|Christian [[Armenians in the Ottoman Empire|Armenians]] and [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]]
|Many women were raped and forced into harems, and many women and children were sold as slaves
|Many women were raped and forced into harems, and many women and children were sold as slaves
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|[[Diyarbakir]]
|[[Diyarbakir]]
|3,000<ref name="autogenerated260"/>-25,000<ref>{{Citation|last=Angold|first=Michael|editor-last=O’Mahony|editor-first=Anthony|title=Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 5, Eastern Christianity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vBy7CTYVBeMC|year=2006|page=512|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0521811132}}</ref>
|3,000<ref name="autogenerated260"/>-25,000<ref>{{Citation|last=Angold|first=Michael|editor-last=O’Mahony|editor-first=Anthony|title=Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 5, Eastern Christianity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vBy7CTYVBeMC|year=2006|page=512|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0521811132}}</ref>
|[[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] irregulars, Ottoman governors
|[[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] irregulars
|Christian [[Armenians in the Ottoman Empire|Armenians]] and [[Assyrians]]
|Christian [[Armenians in the Ottoman Empire|Armenians]] and [[Assyrians]]
|
|
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|[[Adana Vilayet]]
|[[Adana Vilayet]]
|15,000-30,000<ref name=ShamefulAct>Akcam, Taner. ''A Shameful Act''. 2006, page 69–70: "fifteen to twenty thousand Armenians were killed"</ref><ref name=30t>{{cite news| title=30,000 KILLED IN MASSACRES|url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50C10F93C5A15738DDDAC0A94DC405B898CF1D3 |author=|date=April 25, 1909|publisher=''The New York Times''}}</ref><ref>Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views By Samuel. Totten, William S. Parsons, Israel W. Charny</ref>
|15,000-30,000<ref name=ShamefulAct>Akcam, Taner. ''A Shameful Act''. 2006, page 69–70: "fifteen to twenty thousand Armenians were killed"</ref><ref name=30t>{{cite news| title=30,000 KILLED IN MASSACRES|url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50C10F93C5A15738DDDAC0A94DC405B898CF1D3 |author=|date=April 25, 1909|publisher=''The New York Times''}}</ref><ref>Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views By Samuel. Totten, William S. Parsons, Israel W. Charny</ref>
|[[Ottoman Empire]]/[[Young Turk]] government
|[[Young Turk]] government
|[[Armenians in the Ottoman Empire|Armenian]] Christians
|[[Armenians in the Ottoman Empire|Armenian]] Christians
|
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|Ottoman Empire
|Ottoman Empire
|500,000 - 900,000
|500,000 - 900,000
|Young Turk government
|[[Young Turks|Young Turk]] government
|[[Greeks|Greek]] Christians
|[[Greeks|Greek]] Christians
|Reports detail systematic massacres, deportations, individual killings, rapes, burning of entire Greek villages, destruction of Greek Orthodox churches and monasteries, drafts for "Labor Brigades", looting, terrorism and other atrocities<ref name=NYTarchives>[http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?frow=0&n=10&srcht=s&daterange=period&query=&srchst=p&hdlquery=&bylquery=&mon1=09&day1=18&year1=1851&mon2=12&day2=31&year2=1980&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 The New York Times] Advanced search engine for article and headline archives (subscription necessary for viewing article content).</ref><ref name=AIHG-NYT>Alexander Westwood and Darren O'Brien, [http://www.aihgs.com/New%20York%20Times.htm Selected bylines and letters from ''The New York Times''], [http://www.aihgs.com/ The Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies], 2006 <!--Retrieved 2008-10-14--></ref>
|Reports detail systematic massacres, deportations, individual killings, rapes, burning of entire Greek villages, destruction of Greek Orthodox churches and monasteries, drafts for "Labor Brigades", looting, terrorism and other atrocities<ref name=NYTarchives>[http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?frow=0&n=10&srcht=s&daterange=period&query=&srchst=p&hdlquery=&bylquery=&mon1=09&day1=18&year1=1851&mon2=12&day2=31&year2=1980&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 The New York Times] Advanced search engine for article and headline archives (subscription necessary for viewing article content).</ref><ref name=AIHG-NYT>Alexander Westwood and Darren O'Brien, [http://www.aihgs.com/New%20York%20Times.htm Selected bylines and letters from ''The New York Times''], [http://www.aihgs.com/ The Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies], 2006 <!--Retrieved 2008-10-14--></ref>
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|[[Ottoman Empire]]
|[[Ottoman Empire]]
|270,000 - 750,000
|270,000 - 750,000
|[[Ottoman Empire]]/[[Young Turk]] government
|[[Young Turk]] government
|[[Assyrian Christians]]
|[[Assyrian Christians]]
|Denied by the Turkish government
|Denied by the Turkish government
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|45,000 civilians<ref name="google176">{{cite book|last1=Gerwarth|first1=Robert|last2=Horne|first2=John|title=War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe After the Great War|year=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|ISBN=9780199654918|page=176|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Ap94gZsbu6QC&pg=PA176&dq=These+operations+took+the+lives+of+approximately+45,000+civilians+in+the+valley+of+the+Chorukh+river+in+the+South-West+Caucasus&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=eUG0Uau4B4SZ0QWmhIDoDg&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=These%20operations%20took%20the%20lives%20of%20approximately%2045%2C000%20civilians%20in%20the%20valley%20of%20the%20Chorukh%20river%20in%20the%20South-West%20Caucasus&f=false}}</ref>
|45,000 civilians<ref name="google176">{{cite book|last1=Gerwarth|first1=Robert|last2=Horne|first2=John|title=War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe After the Great War|year=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|ISBN=9780199654918|page=176|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Ap94gZsbu6QC&pg=PA176&dq=These+operations+took+the+lives+of+approximately+45,000+civilians+in+the+valley+of+the+Chorukh+river+in+the+South-West+Caucasus&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=eUG0Uau4B4SZ0QWmhIDoDg&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=These%20operations%20took%20the%20lives%20of%20approximately%2045%2C000%20civilians%20in%20the%20valley%20of%20the%20Chorukh%20river%20in%20the%20South-West%20Caucasus&f=false}}</ref>
|[[Russian Empire|Russian]] army, [[Cossack]] regiments, Armenian paramilitaries.
|[[Russian Empire|Russian]] army, [[Cossack]] regiments, Armenian paramilitaries.
|[[Turkish people|Turkish]] and [[Kurdish]] Muslims
|Local Muslims
|During WWI the Russian army with Armenian paramilitaries launched a scorched earth policy against Muslim settlements in the [[Çoruh River|Chorukh]] river valley, Muslim villages were destroyed.<ref name="google176"/>
|During WWI the Russian army with Armenian paramilitaries launched a scorched earth policy against Muslim settlements in the [[Çoruh River|Chorukh]] river valley, Muslim villages were destroyed.<ref name="google176"/>
|}
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|[[Smyrna]]
|[[Smyrna]]
|300-600 killed
|300-600 killed
|Greeks
|[[Greeks]]
|[[Turkish people|Turks]]
|[[Turkish people|Turks]]
|The orderly landing of the Greek army soon turned into a riot against the local Turkish population by local Greeks and Greek soldiers. Stores and houses were looted, many cases of beatings, rape, killing. Estimates for killed Greeks are between 22-32, for Turks between 300-600.
|The orderly landing of the Greek army soon turned into a riot against the local Turkish population by local Greeks and Greek soldiers. Stores and houses were looted, many cases of beatings, rape, killing. Estimates for killed Greeks are between 22-32, for Turks between 300-600.
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|[[Menemen]]
|[[Menemen]]
|100-1,000
|100-1,000
|Greeks
|[[Greeks]]
|[[Turkish people|Turks]]
|[[Turkish people|Turks]]
|-
|-
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|[[Aydın]]
|[[Aydın]]
|2,000-3,000
|2,000-3,000
|Mixed
|Greeks&[[Turkish people|Turks]]
|Mixed
|[[Turkish people|Turks]]&Greeks
|The Greek army occupied the city which was later taken by Turkish irregulars and then again by the Greeks. This resulted in the destruction of most of the city and massacres for both sides. Killed Greeks were estimated as 1,500-2,000, Turks as 1,200-2,000.
|The Greek army occupied the city which was later taken by Turkish irregulars and then again by the Greeks. This resulted in the destruction of most of the city and massacres for both sides. Killed Greeks were estimated as 1,500-2,000, Turks as 1,200-2,000.
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| 9 June - 27 August 1920
| 9 June - 27 August 1920
| Ortaköy, Geyve, Akhisar, Iznik
| Ortaköy, Geyve, Akhisar, Iznik
| at least hundreds or 1,520-1,620<ref name="autogenerated323">Death and exile: the ethnic cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922, Justin McCarthy, page 323, 1995</ref>
| More than a few hundred, less than 1520.<ref name="autogenerated323">Death and exile: the ethnic cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922, Justin McCarthy, page 323, 1995</ref>
|Turkish irregulars
|[[Turkish]] irregulars
|[[Greeks]]
|[[Greeks]]
|Justin McCarthy: "The following are the figures of the Armenian and/or Greek patriarchates. The British warned that they contained "exaggerations."It can be assumed that the actual numbers were lower, but that the massacres actually did take place 9 June, Ortaköy, 270, 10 July, Geyve, 500, 15 July, Akhisar, 350, 27 August, Iznik, 400-500....I have not included some fanciful statements, e.g., "Fouladjik," where 400 were supposedly hanged, or the "village" of Foundouklia," where 1,700 men were supposedly shut up in one village church and many killed, etc"<ref name="autogenerated323"/>
|Justin McCarthy: "The following are the figures of the Armenian and/or Greek patriarchates. The British warned that they contained "exaggerations."It can be assumed that the actual numbers were lower, but that the massacres actually did take place 9 June, Ortaköy, 270, 10 July, Geyve, 500, 15 July, Akhisar, 350, 27 August, Iznik, 400-500"<ref name="autogenerated323"/>
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|-
|[[Gemlik-Yalova Peninsula Massacres]]
|[[Gemlik-Yalova Peninsula Massacres]]
| 1920-21
| 1920-21
|[[Gemlik]]/[[Yalova]] Peninsula
|[[Gemlik]]/[[Yalova]] Peninsula
| 5,500<ref>{{cite book|last=McNeill|first=William H.|title=Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1989|ISBN=9780199923397|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-Q4POZH7C1AC&pg=PT225&dq=1500+survivors+yalova&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=-wmZUZ7QKciG0AX8joHYAQ&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA|quote=To protect their flanks from harassment, Greek military authorities then encouraged irregular bands of armed men to attack and destroy Turkish populations of the region they proposed to abandon. By the time the Red Crescent vessel arrived at Yalova from Constantinople in the last week of May, fourteen out of sixteen villages in that town's immediate hinterland had been destroyed, and there were only 1500 survivors from the 7000 Moslems who had been living in these communities.}}</ref>-6,500<ref>{{cite web|url=http://e-dergi.atauni.edu.tr/index.php/taed/article/view/1438/1434 |title=Oran Arslan |publisher=E-dergi.atauni.edu.tr |date= |accessdate=2013-06-24}}</ref>
| 5,500<ref>{{cite book|last=McNeill|first=William H.|title=Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1989|ISBN=9780199923397|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-Q4POZH7C1AC&pg=PT225&dq=1500+survivors+yalova&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=-wmZUZ7QKciG0AX8joHYAQ&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA|quote=To protect their flanks from harassment, Greek military authorities then encouraged irregular bands of armed men to attack and destroy Turkish populations of the region they proposed to abandon. By the time the Red Crescent vessel arrived at Yalova from Constantinople in the last week of May, fourteen out of sixteen villages in that town's immediate hinterland had been destroyed, and there were only 1500 survivors from the 7000 Moslems who had been living in these communities.}}</ref> - 9,100<ref>http://www.scribd.com/doc/46207420/Ar%C5%9Fiv-Belgelerine-Gore-Balkanlar%E2%80%99da-ve-Anadolu%E2%80%99da-Yunan-Mezalimi-2</ref>
|Greeks troops, local Greeks and Armenians
|Greeks troops, local Greeks and Armenians
|[[Turkish people|Turks]] civilians
|[[Turkish people|Turks]]
| The perpetrators were Greek troops and local Greek and Armenian gangs, who burned down [[Orhangazi]], [[Yenişehir]], [[Armutlu]]. In total 27 villages were razed and their population fled. In Armutlu women were methodically raped.<ref>Sorrowful Shores, Ryan Gingeras, page 111-112, 2009</ref>
| The perpetrators were Greek troops and local Greek and Armenian gangs, who burned down [[Orhangazi]], [[Yenişehir]], [[Armutlu]]. In total 27 villages were razed and their population fled. In Armutlu women were methodically raped.<ref>Sorrowful Shores, Ryan Gingeras, page 111-112, 2009</ref>
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|[[Greeks|Greek]] forces
|[[Greeks|Greek]] forces
|[[Turkish people|Turks]]
|[[Turkish people|Turks]]
|The city was burned by the retreating Greek army, 90% of the buildings were destroyed,.<ref name="U.S. Vice-Consul James Loder Park 1923">U.S. Vice-Consul James Loder Park ''to [[Secretary of State]], [[Smyrna]], 11 April 1923.'' US archives US767.68116/34</ref> 1,000 died.<ref name="U.S. Vice-Consul James Loder Park 1923" />
|The city was burned by the retreating Greek army, 90% of the buildings were destroyed.<ref name="U.S. Vice-Consul James Loder Park 1923">U.S. Vice-Consul James Loder Park ''to [[Secretary of State]], [[Smyrna]], 11 April 1923.'' US archives US767.68116/34</ref> Approximately 1,000 died.<ref name="U.S. Vice-Consul James Loder Park 1923" />
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|-
|[[Turgutlu]]<ref name=Boubougiatzi/>
|[[Turgutlu]]<ref name=Boubougiatzi/>
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| After September 19,1922
| After September 19,1922
|[[Ayvalik]]
|[[Ayvalik]]
|2,977<ref name=Clark/>
|Hundreds<ref name=Clark/>
|[[Turkish people|Turkish]] forces
|[[Turkish people|Turkish]] forces
|[[Greek people|Greeks]]
|[[Greek people|Greeks]]
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|September 13–22, 1922
|September 13–22, 1922
|[[Smyrna]]
|[[Smyrna]]
|10,000-100,000<ref name="transaction233">{{cite book | first = [[Irving Louis Horowitz]] | last = Rudolph J. Rummel | title = Death by Government |publisher=Transaction Publishers |year=1994 |isbn=978-1-56000-927-6 |chapter=Turkey's Genocidal Purges}}, p. 233.</ref><ref name=naimark47>Naimark. ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=L-QLXnX16kAC&pg=PA46&dq=atrocities+against+turks+occupation&hl=en&ei=WGvmTebjEsi6hAfWm9TQCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFAQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=atrocities%20against%20turks%20occupation&f=false Fires of Hatred]'', pp. 47-52.</ref>
|10,000 -100,000<ref name="transaction233">{{cite book | first = [[Irving Louis Horowitz]] | last = Rudolph J. Rummel | title = Death by Government |publisher=Transaction Publishers |year=1994 |isbn=978-1-56000-927-6 |chapter=Turkey's Genocidal Purges}}, p. 233.</ref><ref name=naimark47>Naimark. ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=L-QLXnX16kAC&pg=PA46&dq=atrocities+against+turks+occupation&hl=en&ei=WGvmTebjEsi6hAfWm9TQCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFAQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=atrocities%20against%20turks%20occupation&f=false Fires of Hatred]'', pp. 47-52.</ref>
|Unknown
|Unknown
|[[Greeks|Greek]] and [[Armenians in the Ottoman Empire|Armenian]] Christians
|[[Greeks|Greek]] and [[Armenians in the Ottoman Empire|Armenian]] Christians
|Greeks and Armenians were massacred by Turkish forces in the aftermath of a devastating fire that destroyed their quarters in the city
|Greeks and Armenians were massacred by the outraged mob in the aftermath of a devastating fire that destroyed their quarters in the city.
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|[[Istanbul]], [[Izmir]]
|[[Istanbul]], [[Izmir]]
|13-30<ref name=Libitsouni29>{{cite web|last=Λιμπιτσιούνη|first=Ανθή Γ.|title=Το πλέγμα των ελληνοτουρκικών σχέσεων και η ελληνική μειονότητα στην Τουρκία, οι Έλληνες της Κωνσταντινούπολης της Ίμβρου και της Τενέδου|url=http://invenio.lib.auth.gr/record/113326/files/LIBITSIOUNI.pdf?version=1|publisher=University of Thessaloniki|page=29}}</ref>
|13-30<ref name=Libitsouni29>{{cite web|last=Λιμπιτσιούνη|first=Ανθή Γ.|title=Το πλέγμα των ελληνοτουρκικών σχέσεων και η ελληνική μειονότητα στην Τουρκία, οι Έλληνες της Κωνσταντινούπολης της Ίμβρου και της Τενέδου|url=http://invenio.lib.auth.gr/record/113326/files/LIBITSIOUNI.pdf?version=1|publisher=University of Thessaloniki|page=29}}</ref>
|[[Turkey|N]]<nowiki/>ationalists
|N<nowiki/>ationalists
|[[Greeks|Greek]] and [[Armenians|Armenian]] Christians, [[Jew]]s
|[[Greeks|Greek]] and [[Armenians|Armenian]] Christians, [[Jew]]s
|The killings are identified as genocidal by [[Alfred-Maurice de Zayas]].<ref name=alfredbkp>Alfred de Zayas publication about the Istanbul Pogrom http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/865v4835x83m3757/</ref> Many of the minorities, mostly Greek Christians, forced to leave Turkey. Several churches are demolished by explosives.
|The killings are identified as genocidal by [[Alfred-Maurice de Zayas]].<ref name=alfredbkp>Alfred de Zayas publication about the Istanbul Pogrom http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/865v4835x83m3757/</ref> Many of the minorities, mostly Greek Christians, forced to leave Turkey. Several churches are demolished by explosives.
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|[[Taksim Square]] in [[Istanbul]]
|[[Taksim Square]] in [[Istanbul]]
|34<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bianet.org/bianet/kategori/bianet/78385/1977-1-mayis-katliami-aydinlatilsin <!-- used to be http://www.bianet.org/2006/04/28/78385.htm -->|work=bianet|first=Emine|last=Özcan|date=2006-04-28|title=1977 1 Mayıs Katliamı Aydınlatılsın|language=Turkish}}</ref>-42<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.radikal.com.tr/haber.php?haberno=220085|author=Mavioglu, Ertugrul|coauthors=Sanyer, Ruhi|title=30 yıl sonra kanlı 1 Mayıs (4)|date=2007-05-02|language=Turkish|work=[[Radikal]]}}</ref>
|34<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bianet.org/bianet/kategori/bianet/78385/1977-1-mayis-katliami-aydinlatilsin <!-- used to be http://www.bianet.org/2006/04/28/78385.htm -->|work=bianet|first=Emine|last=Özcan|date=2006-04-28|title=1977 1 Mayıs Katliamı Aydınlatılsın|language=Turkish}}</ref>-42<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.radikal.com.tr/haber.php?haberno=220085|author=Mavioglu, Ertugrul|coauthors=Sanyer, Ruhi|title=30 yıl sonra kanlı 1 Mayıs (4)|date=2007-05-02|language=Turkish|work=[[Radikal]]}}</ref>
|[[Turkey|U]]<nowiki/>nknown
|U<nowiki/>nknown
|[[Leftist]] demonstrators
|[[Leftist]] demonstrators
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|109<ref name=david>A modern history of the Kurds, By David McDowall, page 415, at [http://books.google.com/books?id=1tarN6gfxX8C&pg=PA415&lpg=PA415&dq=Maras+Massacre&source=bl&ots=VugE6xVwFk&sig=_gQUK4y0PGbXNK5qjQNJC9lwUvc&hl=en&ei=B-4tTPyoC4OBlAf0pMnhCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=Maras%20Massacre&f=false Google Books]</ref>
|109<ref name=david>A modern history of the Kurds, By David McDowall, page 415, at [http://books.google.com/books?id=1tarN6gfxX8C&pg=PA415&lpg=PA415&dq=Maras+Massacre&source=bl&ots=VugE6xVwFk&sig=_gQUK4y0PGbXNK5qjQNJC9lwUvc&hl=en&ei=B-4tTPyoC4OBlAf0pMnhCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=Maras%20Massacre&f=false Google Books]</ref>
|[[Grey Wolves]]<ref name=david/>
|[[Grey Wolves]]<ref name=david/>
|[[Alevi]] [[Kurdish people|Kurds]]
|[[Alevi]] Turks and Kurds
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Revision as of 15:30, 2 July 2013

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Turkey and its predecessors (numbers may be approximate, as estimates vary greatly):

Ottoman Empire (till 1914)

Name Date Location Deaths Responsible Party Victims Notes
Constantinople Massacre 1821 Constantinople unknown Ottoman government Greeks Greek Orthodox Patriarch Gregory V and other notables were executed, while local Muslims were encouraged to attack the Greek population.
Massacres of Badr Khan 1840 Hakkari 10,000[1] Kurdish Emirs of Buhtan, Badr Khan and Nurullah Christians Many who were not killed were sold into slavery
Hamidian massacres 1894–1896 Anatolia, Ottoman Empire 100,000-300,000[2] Ottoman Empire Christian Armenians and Assyrians Many women were raped and forced into harems, and many women and children were sold as slaves
Massacres in Erzurum[3][4] 10/30/1895 Erzurum 1,500[5]-60,000+[citation needed] Ottoman soldiers and local Muslims Christian Armenians[6] Approximately 90 percent of the Armenians of Erzurum province were killed.[7]
Massacres of Diyarbakir (1895)[8] 10/25/1895 Diyarbakir 3,000[5]-25,000[9] Kurdish irregulars Christian Armenians and Assyrians
Adana massacre April 13, 1909 Adana Vilayet 15,000-30,000[10][11][12] Young Turk government Armenian Christians

World War I (1914-1918)

Name Date Location Deaths Responsible Party Victims Notes
Greek genocide[13][14][15][16] 1914–1923 Ottoman Empire 500,000 - 900,000 Young Turk government Greek Christians Reports detail systematic massacres, deportations, individual killings, rapes, burning of entire Greek villages, destruction of Greek Orthodox churches and monasteries, drafts for "Labor Brigades", looting, terrorism and other atrocities[17][18]
Assyrian genocide[19] 1914–1925 Ottoman Empire 270,000 - 750,000 Young Turk government Assyrian Christians Denied by the Turkish government
Armenian Genocide[20] 1915–1923 Ottoman Empire 600,000-1,800,000 Young Turk government Armenian Christians Denied by the Turkish government; is the second most studied case of genocide after the Holocaust
Massacres in the Chorukh river valley 1914-1916 Artvin Province, Ardahan Province 45,000 civilians[21] Russian army, Cossack regiments, Armenian paramilitaries. Turkish and Kurdish Muslims During WWI the Russian army with Armenian paramilitaries launched a scorched earth policy against Muslim settlements in the Chorukh river valley, Muslim villages were destroyed.[21]

Greco-Turkish War (1919-1923)

Name Date Location Deaths Responsible Party Victims Notes
Greek landing at Smyrna May 15–16, 1919 Smyrna 300-600 killed Greeks Turks The orderly landing of the Greek army soon turned into a riot against the local Turkish population by local Greeks and Greek soldiers. Stores and houses were looted, many cases of beatings, rape, killing. Estimates for killed Greeks are between 22-32, for Turks between 300-600.
Menemen massacre June 16–17, 1919 Menemen 100-1,000 Greeks Turks
Battle of Aydın June 27- July 4, 1919 Aydın 2,000-3,000 Mixed Mixed The Greek army occupied the city which was later taken by Turkish irregulars and then again by the Greeks. This resulted in the destruction of most of the city and massacres for both sides. Killed Greeks were estimated as 1,500-2,000, Turks as 1,200-2,000.
Iznik-Izmit region 9 June - 27 August 1920 Ortaköy, Geyve, Akhisar, Iznik More than a few hundred, less than 1520.[22] Turkish irregulars Greeks Justin McCarthy: "The following are the figures of the Armenian and/or Greek patriarchates. The British warned that they contained "exaggerations."It can be assumed that the actual numbers were lower, but that the massacres actually did take place 9 June, Ortaköy, 270, 10 July, Geyve, 500, 15 July, Akhisar, 350, 27 August, Iznik, 400-500"[22]
Gemlik-Yalova Peninsula Massacres 1920-21 Gemlik/Yalova Peninsula 5,500[23] - 9,100[24] Greeks troops, local Greeks and Armenians Turks The perpetrators were Greek troops and local Greek and Armenian gangs, who burned down Orhangazi, Yenişehir, Armutlu. In total 27 villages were razed and their population fled. In Armutlu women were methodically raped.[25]
Bilecik March–April 1921 Bilecik, Sögüt, Bozüyük 208 killed 226 raped.[26] Greeks troops, local Greeks Turks The town of Bilecik and crops were burned down by the retreating Greek army, local people were massacred.[27] Bilecik, Sögüt, Bozüyük and dozens of neighboring villages were burned or plundered by the hastily retreating Greek army, there haste limited the destruction.[26]
Izmit 24 June 1921 Izmit 300[28] Greek forces Turks Up to 300 people, mostly men, were executed by Greek troops. There bodies were buried in a mass grave outside the town. Arnold J. Toynbee was a reporter who described these events in the Manchester Guardian.[28]
Salihli September 5, 1922 Salihli at least 76[29] Greek forces Turks The city was burned by the retreating Greek army, 65% of the buildings were destroyed.[30]
Turgutlu September 4-6, 1922 Turgutlu 1,000[30] Greek forces Turks The city was burned by the retreating Greek army, 90% of the buildings were destroyed.[30] Approximately 1,000 died.[30]
Turgutlu[31] September 1922 Turgutlu (former Kasaba) 4,000[31] Turks Greeks From 8,000 Greek civilians gathered in the town, half of them remained after the evacuation of the Greek Army. They were killed by the advancing Turkish soldiers.[31]
Uşak September 1, 1922 Uşak 200[32] Greeks Turks The city was burned by the retreating Greek army, 33% of the buildings were destroyed.[30] [dubious – discuss]
Akhisar 1922 Akhisar 7,000[33] Turkish forces Greeks As a result of the capture of the city by the Turkish nationalist army, all remaining local Greeks were murdered. Since then there is no Christian community in the city.[33]
Alaşehir September 3-4, 1922 Alaşehir 3,000[34] Greeks Turks The city was burned by the retreating Greek army.[30]
Ayvalik After September 19,1922 Ayvalik Hundreds[35] Turkish forces Greeks As an act of revenge for the killing of a local Muslim judge by some Greek irregulars from Cunda several years earlier, hundreds of civilians were killed on the islet of [[Cunda Island|Cunda]], only some children were spared. Most of the male Greek population who remained in the town were deported to the interior of Anatolia, only 23 survived. The rest of the population was deported to Greece.[35]
Catastrophe of Smyrna September 13–22, 1922 Smyrna 10,000 -100,000[36][37] Unknown Greek and Armenian Christians Greeks and Armenians were massacred by the outraged mob in the aftermath of a devastating fire that destroyed their quarters in the city.

Republic of Turkey (1923-present)

Name Date Location Deaths Responsible Party Victims Notes
Zilan massacre July 1930 Van Province 4,500-47,000[38] Turkish security forces Sunni Kurds 5,000 women, children, and the elderly were reportedly killed[39]
Dersim Massacre Summer 1937-Spring 1938 Tunceli Province 13,806-70,000[40] Turkish security forces Alevi Zazas The killings have been condemned by some as an ethnocide or genocide[41][42]
Istanbul Pogrom 6–7 September 1955 Istanbul, Izmir 13-30[43] Nationalists Greek and Armenian Christians, Jews The killings are identified as genocidal by Alfred-Maurice de Zayas.[44] Many of the minorities, mostly Greek Christians, forced to leave Turkey. Several churches are demolished by explosives.
Massacre of March 16 (Beyazıt Massacre) March 16, 1978 Istanbul 7 university students killed, 41 injured [1], Grey Wolves, Turkish Police, Deep State Leftist university students Cemil Sönmez, Baki Ekiz, Hatice Özen, Abdullah Şimşek, Murat Kurt, Hamdi Akıl and Turan Ören were killed and 41 others were injured by a bomb that was followed by gunfire March 16, 1978.
Taksim Square massacre May 1, 1977 Taksim Square in Istanbul 34[45]-42[46] Unknown Leftist demonstrators
Bahçelievler massacre October 9, 1978 Bahçelievler, Ankara 7[47] Neo-fascists Leftist students
Maraş Massacre December 19–26, 1978 Kahramanmaraş Province 109[48] Grey Wolves[48] Alevi Turks and Kurds
Çorum Massacre May–July, 1980 Çorum Province 57[49] Grey Wolves Alevi Turks
Sivas massacre[50] July 2, 1993 Sivas, Turkey 37 Islamists Alevi intellectuals
Gazi Quarter massacre March 15, 1995 Istanbul and Ankara 23[51] Turkish government Alevi Turks More than 400 injured[51]
Mardin engagement ceremony massacre May 4, 2009 Bilge, Mardin 44[52] Kurds Kurds Reuters said it was "one of the worst attacks involving civilians in Turkey's modern history", declaring that the scale of the attack had shocked the nation.[53]
Uludere massacre December 28, 2011 Uludere, Sirnak 34[54] Turkish government Kurds
  • Aftermath of the massacres at Erzurum
    Aftermath of the massacres at Erzurum
  • An Armenian town left pillaged and destroyed, during the Adana massacre
    An Armenian town left pillaged and destroyed, during the Adana massacre
  • Photo taken after the Smyrna fire. The text inside indicates that the photo had been taken by representatives of the Red Cross in Smyrna
    Photo taken after the Smyrna fire. The text inside indicates that the photo had been taken by representatives of the Red Cross in Smyrna
  • Armenian woman kneeling beside dead child in field "within sight of help and safety at Aleppo"
    Armenian woman kneeling beside dead child in field "within sight of help and safety at Aleppo"

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