Another game overshadowed by horrific umpiring decisions. Someone also please do something about these terrible @FOXFOOTY camera angles! #AFLCrowsPower
Today, 14th September, is the Day of National Remembrance in commemoration of the genocide of Asia Minor Greeks by the Turkish state.ย
It stands as a solemn reminderย to one of the great atrocities of the 20th century-massacres committed not against soldiers in battle, but against the indigenous Greek civilian population of Asia Minor, citizens of the Ottoman Empire, women, children, and the elderly who had lived in Anatolia for thousands of years.ย
The Great Fire of Smyrna was the peak of the Asia Minor Catastrophe, and the last phase of the Greek genocide. It was part of a broader campaign initiated by the Ottoman Empireโs Young Turk regime and later continued by Turkish nationalist forces under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk -an effort to eliminate Christian minorities and to forge an ethnically homogeneous Turkish state.
Whereas up to 2 million Greeks lived in Asia Minor prior to World War I, there are less than 1,200 Greeks residing in Turkey today.
Despite the overwhelming historical evidence, the Greek Genocide remains unrecognized by the EU, US, UK, and the United Nations-a silence that deepens the wound of memory and denies justice to its victims.