A short history of Turkey in the 20th century
🔴 Armenian Genocide (1915): 1.5 million massacred and deported.
🔴 Greek Genocide (1914-1923): 1.2 million exterminated or expelled.
🔴 Assyrian Genocide (1915-1918): 275,000 Christians massacred.
🔴 Great Famine of Lebanon (1915-1918): 200,000 dead due to deliberate confiscation of food.
🔴 Dersim Genocide (1937-1938): chemical weapons against Kurds.
🔴 Racial Tax (1942): 232% for Armenians, 179% for Jews, 156% for Greeks. Systematic economic destruction.
🔴 Istanbul Pogrom (1955): hundreds of Greek women and children raped by mobs organized by the State.
🔴 Cyprus Invasion (1974): 200,000 Greeks expelled. Occupation that continues today.
🔴 Kurds (1980s-90s): 2,685 villages razed. 2 million displaced.
🔴 Northern Syria (2015-present): 400,000 Kurds expelled and replaced by Arab settlers.