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===Greco–Turkish War=== |
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⚫ | After the [[Greek landing at Smyrna|Greek invasion]] and [[Occupation of Smyrna|occupation of Western Anatolia]] after World War I during the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919–22)|Greco-Turkish War]], local Turkish resistance was answered with terror against the local Muslims. Killings, rapes, and village burnings were a standard pattern of the Greek occupation. The Greeks advanced all the way to [[Central Anatolia]]. After the [[Great Smyrna Offensive|Turkish attack in 1922]], the retreating Greek army committed its largest campaign of destruction. During its retreat, [[Greco-Turkish War (1919–22)#Greek scorched-earth policy|towns and villages were burned]] as part of a scorched earth policy, accompanied with massacres and rapes. During this war, most of Western Anatolia was destroyed, large towns such as [[Manisa]], [[Salihli]], [[İzmir]] (Smyrna) and others together with hundreds of villages being burned, although it is unknown what started the fire in İzmir. |
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Also during the Greek occupation, Greek troops and local Greek, Armenian and |
Also during the Greek occupation, Greek troops and local Greek, Armenian, and Circassian gangs committed the [[Yalova Peninsula Massacres (1920–21)|Yalova Peninsula Massacres]] in early 1921 against the Turkish and Muslim population of the [[Gemlik]]-[[Yalova]] peninsula.<ref name="Toynbee 1970 283-284">{{cite book|last=Toynbee|first=Arnold Joseph|title=The Western Question in Greece and Turkey:A Study in the Contact of Civilizations|year=1970|publisher=H. Fertig, originally: University of California|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=gTkbAAAAIAAJ&q=This+plan+is+being+carried+out+by+Greek+and+Armenian+bands,+++which+appear+to+operate+under+Greek+instructions+and+sometimes+++even+with+the+assistance+of+detachments+of+regular+troops.&dq=This+plan+is+being+carried+out+by+Greek+and+Armenian+bands,+++which+appear+to+operate+under+Greek+instructions+and+sometimes+++even+with+the+assistance+of+detachments+of+regular+troops.&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WrCXUdrtMYTJOYa6gMgL&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAw|quote=The full version can be found [http://louisville.edu/a-s/history/turks/WesternQuestion.pdf here (Online reports of Arnold Toynbee)]|quote=‘The members of the Commission consider that, in the part of the kazas of Yalova and Guemlek occupied by the Greek army, there is a systematic plan of destruction of Turkish villages and extinction of the Moslem population. This plan is being carried out by Greek and Armenian bands, which appear to operate under Greek instructions and sometimes even with the assistance of detachments of regular troops|pages=283–284}}</ref> These resulted in the deaths of thousands of the local Muslim populace, as well as the total or nearly total burning of tens of towns and massacres of their populations.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.scribd.com/doc/46207420/Ar%C5%9Fiv-Belgelerine-Gore-Balkanlar%E2%80%99da-ve-Anadolu%E2%80%99da-Yunan-Mezalimi-2 |title=Arşiv Belgelerine Göre Balkanlar’da ve Anadolu’da Yunan Mezâlimi 2 |publisher=Scribd.com |date=2011-01-03 |accessdate=2013-09-07}}</ref> |
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The peace after the Greco–Turkish War resulted in a [[Population exchange between Greece and Turkey|mutual population exchange between Greece and Turkey]], |
The peace after the Greco–Turkish War resulted in a [[Population exchange between Greece and Turkey|mutual population exchange between Greece and Turkey]], with almost all of the Muslims of Greece being sent to Turkey. |
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==Total casualties== |
==Total casualties== |
Revision as of 21:37, 5 March 2014
Persecution of Ottoman Muslims | |
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Part of the Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire | |
![]() Map of persecutions against Ottoman Muslims between 1683 and 1922. | |
Location | Ottoman Empire |
Date | 1683-1922 |
Target | Muslim population of the Ottoman Empire |
Attack type | Deportation, expulsion, massacres |
Deaths | Millions |
Persecution of Ottoman Muslims refer to the persecution, massacre, or ethnic cleansing of Muslims (most prominently Ottoman Turks) by non-Muslim ethnic groups during the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.[1] It affected several million people.
Background
Turkish settlement and Islamisation
Turkish Muslims settled in the Balkans during the reign of the Ottoman Empire. Some of them were Yörüks, nomads who quickly became sedentary and others from urban classes. They settled in almost all of the towns but the majority of them settled in the Eastern Balkans. Main areas of settlement were: Ludogorie, Dobrudzha the Thracian plain, the mountains and plains of northern Greece and Eastern Macedonia around the Vardar river. Some of the native population converted to Islam and became Turkified over time.
Between the 15th and 17th centuries, large numbers of native Balkan peoples converted to Islam. Places of mass conversion were in Bosnia, Albania, Crete, and the Rhodope Mountains.
Long War
Even before the Great Turkish War (1683—1699) Austrians and Venetians supported Christian irregulars and rebellious highlanders of Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania to raid their Muslim Slav fellow-citizens.[2]
The Great Turkish War ending in 1699 was the first time the Ottomans lost large areas to Christians. Most of Hungary, Podolia, and the Morea was lost, and the Muslim minorities were killed, enslaved, or expelled. The Ottomans regained the Morea quickly, and Muslims soon became part of the population or were never thoroughly displaced in the first place.
Most of the Christians who lived in the Ottoman Empire were Orthodox so Russia was particularly interested for them. In 1711 Peter the Great invited Balkan Christians to revolt against Ottomans.[3]
Croatia
About one quarter of all people living in Slavonia in 16th century were Muslims who mostly lived in towns, with Osijek and Požega being the largest Muslim settlements.[4] Like other Muslims who lived in Croatia (Lika and Kordun) and Dalmatia, they were all forced to leave their homes until the end of 1699. This was the first example of the cleansing of Muslims in this region. This cleansing of Muslims "enjoyed the benediction of Catholic church". Around 130,000 Muslims from Croatia and Slavonia were driven to Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina.[5][6] Basically, all Muslims who lived in Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia were either forced to exile, murdered or enslaved.[4]
Thousands of Serb refugees crossed Danube and populated territories of Habsburg Monarchy left by Muslims. Leopold I granted ethno-religious autonomy to them without giving any privileges to the remainin Muslim population who therefore fled to Bosnia, Herzegovina and Serbia spreading anti-Christian sentiment among other Muslims there.[7] The relations between non-Muslim and Muslim population of Ottoman held Balkans became progressively worse.[8]
In the beginning of the 18th century remaining Muslims of Slavonia moved to Posavina.[9][10] The Ottoman authorities encouraged hopes of expelled Muslims for a quick return to their homes and settled them in the border regions.[11] The Muslims comprised about 2/3 population of Lika. All of them, like Muslims who lived in other parts of Croatia, were forced to convert to Catholicism or to be expelled.[12] Almost all buildings that belonged to Muslim religion and culture were destroyed in the region of Croatia after Muslims had to leave it.[13]
Montenegro
At the beginning of the 18th century (1709 or 1711) Orthodox Serbs massacred their Muslim neighbors in Montenegro.[14][15]
Russian expansion
Crimean Khanate
Nomadic Turkic speaking peoples, later known as "Tatars" had inhabited the steppes of Southern Ukraine since the early Middle Ages. Most of them became islamised after the 13th century. After the dissolution of the Golden Horde the Crimean Khanate was established in the late 15th century. They gained control of northern Crimea while the Ottomans took over the south. This khanate had a long history of war with its Christian neighbours Russia and Poland. In the late 18th century the Russians expanded their empire with war against the Ottomans and Crimeans. After a series of destructive invasions into Crimea it became annexed to the Russian Empire in 1783. Russian discrimination and upression started a Crimean Tatar exodus which would last into the 19th century.[16]
Caucasus
The native peoples of the Caucasus had been practically independent of outside powers during their existence. The east was Islamised rather early while in the west. the Circassians converted in the late 18th century. Russian encroachment on these peoples land began in the 16th century first with the settling of Cossacks in the lowlands. A low intensity conflict took place during the next centuries. In the 19th century Russia wished a more intense annexation and this resulted in the expansion of the conflict. Several years of dramatic resistance was offered by the natives who were in the end overwhelmed by the Russian armies. These wars resulted in a huge loss of lives, destruction of property and most of the Circassians were expelled to the Ottoman Empire. [17] Many of them died during the process or place of arrival. Survivors were scattered around Anatolia. A smaller number of eastern Caucasians migrated also. After the Crimean War the majority of the Abkhazians left their homeland after siding with an Ottoman invasion army.
During the Russian conquest of the southern Caucasus a number of Turkic peoples called Karapapaks left their lands and settled in the Ottoman Empire.
Nationalist uprisings
Serbian Revolt
In 1804 a major Serbian Revolt broke out in the Belgrade area. It was accompanied by attacks on the local Muslims. After some time insurgents took over Belgrade in 1806 where a massacre took place[18] and some other towns. In the end Serbia became an autonomous country with most of the Muslims been killed or expelled. In Belgrade and the rest of Serba there remained a Muslim population which was eventually also forcibly expelled after the 1850s.[19]
Greek Revolution
In 1821 a major Greek revolt broke out in Southern Greece. Insurgents gained control of most of the countryside while the Muslims fled to the fortified towns and castles. Each one of them was besieged and gradually through starvation or surrender most were taken over by the Greeks. Most of the Muslims were then massacred. In the end an Independent Greece was set up. Most of the Muslims in its area had been killed or expelled during the conflict.
A revolt also broke out in Crete but it remained Ottoman. In the course of the 19th century more revolts broke out and the Muslims declined dramatically through massacre or migration. The last remaining Cretan Muslims were sent to Turkey by the population exchange.
According to Justin McCarthy, between the years 1821 - 1922, from the beginning of the Greek War of Independence to the end of the Ottoman Empire, five million Muslims were driven from their lands and another five and one-half million died, some of them killed in wars, others perishing as refugees from starvation or disease.[20] However, McCarthy's objectivity is questioned, as a scholar on the Turkish side of the debate.[21]
Bulgarian uprising
In 1876 a Bulgarian uprising broke out in dozens of villages. The first attacks were made against the local Muslims but in a short time the Ottomans violently suppressed the uprising.
Russo-Turkish war
Balkans
The Bulgarian uprising eventually lead to a war between Russia and the Ottomans. Russia invaded the Ottoman Balkans through Dobrudzha and northern Bulgaria attacking the Muslim population. In this war the Ottomans were defeated and in the process a large part of the Turks of Bulgaria fled to Anatolia and Constantinople. It was a cold winter and through massacres and diseases a large part of them died. Some of them returned after the war but most of these left again after upression. The Bulgarian Turks settled mostly around the Sea of Marmara. Some of them had been wealthy and they played an important part in the Ottoman elite in later years.
During this war Serbia declared war on the Ottomans, after the peace it gained the area around Niš. The local Muslims mostly migrated to Kosovo.[22]
In 1875 a Muslims and Christians conflict broke out in Bosnia. In 1878 Bosnia was occupied by the Austria-Hungary and after some Muslim resistance annexed. A large number of Muslims migrated to areas under Ottoman control, some in the Balkans some in Anatolia.
Caucasus
The war continued in the east and after the peace area around Kars was ceded to Russia. This resulted in a large number of Muslims leaving and settling in remaining Ottoman lands.
Balkan Wars
In 1912 Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria and Montenegro declared war on the Ottomans. The Ottomans quickly lost territory. The invading armies and Christian insurgents committed a wide range of atrocities upon the Muslim population.[23] In Kosovo and Albania most of the victims were Albanians while in other areas most of the victims were Turks and Pomaks. A large number of Pomaks in the Rhodopes were forcibly converted to Orthodoxy but later allowed to reconvert, most of them did.[24] During this war a large part of the Turks and Pomaks fled their villages and became refugees. Thessaloniki and Adrianople were crowded with them. By sea and land mostly they settled in Ottoman Thrace and Anatolia.
World War I and the Turkish War of Independence
Turkish–Armenian_War
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During the Russian invasion of Ottoman lands many atrocities were carried out against the local Turks and Kurds by the Russian army and Armenian volunteers. For Armenians, that was the first phase of Armenian revenge for genocide, which cost the lives of about a million Armenians.[25]
Franco-Turkish_War
Cilicia was occupied by the British after World War I, who were later replaced by the French. These took an Armenian legion with them who persecuted the local Muslims.[26] Complaints were mostly unheard by the French. Eventually the Turks responded with resistance against the French occupation, battles took place in Marash, Aintab, and Urfa. Most of these cities were destroyed during the process with large civilian suffering. The French left the area together with the Armenians after 1920.
Greco–Turkish War
After the Greek invasion and occupation of Western Anatolia after World War I during the Greco-Turkish War, local Turkish resistance was answered with terror against the local Muslims. Killings, rapes, and village burnings were a standard pattern of the Greek occupation. The Greeks advanced all the way to Central Anatolia. After the Turkish attack in 1922, the retreating Greek army committed its largest campaign of destruction. During its retreat, towns and villages were burned as part of a scorched earth policy, accompanied with massacres and rapes. During this war, most of Western Anatolia was destroyed, large towns such as Manisa, Salihli, İzmir (Smyrna) and others together with hundreds of villages being burned, although it is unknown what started the fire in İzmir.
Also during the Greek occupation, Greek troops and local Greek, Armenian, and Circassian gangs committed the Yalova Peninsula Massacres in early 1921 against the Turkish and Muslim population of the Gemlik-Yalova peninsula.[27] These resulted in the deaths of thousands of the local Muslim populace, as well as the total or nearly total burning of tens of towns and massacres of their populations.[28]
The peace after the Greco–Turkish War resulted in a mutual population exchange between Greece and Turkey, with almost all of the Muslims of Greece being sent to Turkey.
Total casualties
Total Muslim deaths and refugees during these centuries are estimated to be several millions.[citation needed]
Commemoration
There exists literature in Turkey dealing with these events, but outside of Turkey, the events are largely unknown to the world public.
Memorials
There is an monument in Iğdır remembering the Muslim victims of World War I.
Gallery
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After the fall of Tripolitsa in 1821 thousands of Muslims were killed by the Greek rebels.
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Turkish refugees in Thrace fleeing before the Bulgarian army during the Balkan wars (1912-1913).
References
- ^ McCarthy, Justin Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922, Darwin Press Incorporated, 1996, ISBN 0-87850-094-4, Chapter one, The land to be lost, p. 1.
- ^ Malik, Maleiha (13 September 2013). ANTI-MUSLIM PREJUDICE - MALIK: Past and Present. Routledge. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-317-98898-4.
Christian irregulars in the Austrian or Venetian service, and insurgent highlanders of Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania meanwhile threw off 'the Turkish yoke' by marauding, mostly against the Muslim Slavs.
- ^ Mitzen, Jennifer (10 September 2013). Power in Concert: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Global Governance. University of Chicago Press. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-226-06025-5.
Peter the Great called on Balkan subjects to revolt in 1711; Catherine the Great encouraged a Greek rebellion in 1770 and
- ^ a b Nielsen, Jørgen; Akgönül, Samim; Alibašić, Ahmet (19 September 2013). Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. BRILL. p. 165. ISBN 978-90-04-25586-9.
According to reliable estimates, during the 16th century around one fourth of the population in Slavonia, ..., were Muslims, living mostly in towns.
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By 1699 130,000 Slavonian and Croatian Muslims had been driven to Ottoman Bosnia by the advancing imperialists.
- ^ Velikonja, Mitja (5 February 2003). Religious Separation and Political Intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Texas A&M University Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-58544-226-3.
...in Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, Slavonia, and Lika after the Habsburg-Ottoman war of 1683-99. It was the first example in this area of cleansing the Muslim population that also "enjoyed the benediction of Catholic church".
- ^ Malik, Maleiha (13 September 2013). ANTI-MUSLIM PREJUDICE - MALIK: Past and Present. Routledge. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-317-98898-4.
Leopold I...not consider extending any privileges to the Muslims. They therefore fled to Bosnia, Herzegovina, Serbia and further southeast, fanning anti-Christian sentiments among their coreligionists.
- ^ Bosworth, Clifford Edmund (1 January 2007). Historic Cities of the Islamic World. BRILL. p. 466. ISBN 90-04-15388-8.
... a period during which relations between the Muslim and non-Muslim populations of the region deteriorated sharply
- ^ Velikonja, Mitja (5 February 2003). Religious Separation and Political Intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Texas A&M University Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-58544-226-3.
The entire Slavonian Muslim population fled south into Bosnia after the Treaty of Karlovac in 1699.
- ^ Ingrao, Charles W.; Samardžić, Nikola; Pesalj, Jovan (2011). The Peace of Passarowitz, 1718. Purdue University Press. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-55753-594-8.
Many more Muslim families that had lived in Slavonia moved to Posavina after 1699 and during the first two decades of the eighteenth
- ^ Ingrao, Charles W.; Samardžić, Nikola; Pesalj, Jovan (2011). The Peace of Passarowitz, 1718. Purdue University Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-55753-594-8.
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As in all other reconquered territories, the Muslims (who for example comprised two-thirds of the population in Lika) in Croatia were either converted to Catholicism or banished.
- ^ Mohorovičić, Andro (1994). Architecture in Croatia: Architecture and Town Planning. Croatian Academy of Science and Arts. p. 114. ISBN 978-953-0-31657-7.
With the Turks gone, almost all the Turkish buildings on Croatian area were destroyed.
- ^ Black, Jeremy (12 February 2007). European Warfare in a Global Context, 1660–1815. Routledge. p. 192. ISBN 978-1-134-15922-2.
The Muslim population of Montenegro was massacred by the Serbs.
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Even the precise date of the bloody affair is not certain, but most historians have accepted 1709 as the year of the assault
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- ^ Toynbee, Arnold Joseph (1970). The Western Question in Greece and Turkey:A Study in the Contact of Civilizations. H. Fertig, originally: University of California. pp. 283–284.
'The members of the Commission consider that, in the part of the kazas of Yalova and Guemlek occupied by the Greek army, there is a systematic plan of destruction of Turkish villages and extinction of the Moslem population. This plan is being carried out by Greek and Armenian bands, which appear to operate under Greek instructions and sometimes even with the assistance of detachments of regular troops
- ^ "Arşiv Belgelerine Göre Balkanlar'da ve Anadolu'da Yunan Mezâlimi 2". Scribd.com. 2011-01-03. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
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