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CHRONOLOGICAL CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY COMMITED BY TURKS FROM 1878 TO 1999

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1878 June 4. Turkey sells Cyprus to England.
1879 Kurdish revolt at Badinan by Obeydalla.

 
1894 September-1896 August. Sultan Abdul Hamit applies the policy’ of genocide to the Armenians. In August and September 1894, Armenians are slain in Sassun. In October 1895 takes place the first organised genocide in Constantinople and Trebizond and in November and December 1895 the authorities organized a great massacre throughout the country. In June 1896, the massacre of Van takes place. After the capture by the Armenians in 26-8-1896 of the Ottoman Bank, another massacre takes place in Constantinople. Total number of victims is 300.000.

 
1896 May 12. Murders of Greeks and conflicts between Greeks and Turks in the island of Crete.
1909 end of March. New massacres of the Armenians organized by the New-Turks at Adana, Tarsus and other towns of Cilicia. Victims are 30.000 Armenians and some American missionnaries.
1909 Revolution of the Arabs in Yemen is suppressed in bloodshed by the New-Turks.

 
1911 October 1. Assassination of Emilianos, Bishop of Grevena by the Turks.
1912 Kurdish uprising in Mardin under Bedirhan and H. Remo, and in Bitlis under Seyh Selim.

 
1912 The turkish army in retreat from East Thrace loots the villages of Didymotichon and Adrianopoli districts. Villages of the Malgara district are burnt. The same happens in Kessani. Assassinations and massacres accompany the destruction and looting in this predominantly greek region.
1913 February. The turkish authorities compel the Greek inhabitants of the district of village Crithea to leave their village in East Thrace. A brutal looting follows.

 
1913 The reoccupation of Eastern Thrace by the turkish army leads to atrocities and massacres of Greeks. 15.690 are the victims of these massacres. In the regions of Malgara and Charioupoli many villages are also destroyed. Massacres were followed by looting.
1914 February 8. The Dutch Westerneck and the Norwegian Hoft are appointed as General Inspectors of the Armenian provinces.

 
1914 May 25. The Greek Orthodox (Ecumenical) Patriarcate protests for the persecution of Christians and commands all churches and schools to be closed.
1914 May 27. The turkish authorities at Pergamum command all Christian population to leave the town within two hours. The terrorized inhabitants take refuge in the Greek island of Mytilini.
1924 July 10. Kurdish revolt of Nasturi in Hakkari. It was suppressed by the 7th turkish Army corps after 79 days 36 villages were destroyed 12 others were levelled down to the earth.

 
1925 March 3. The great Kurdish revolution bursts out at Elazig under Seyh-Sait 10.000 Kurds seize Harput and attack Diyarbakir, the Capital of Kurdistan After the complete destruction of 48 villages, the,revolution was suppressed at 7/10/1927 drowned in Kurdish blood.
1926 May 16. Mount Agri Kurdish revolt takes place. The rebels caught prisonner, the 28th turkish infantry division. The revolt after being spread to the regions of Hakkari, Siirt and Mardin, was suppressed after fierce fights with more powerful forces at 17/7/1926.
1927 May 30. A great Kurdish revolution in Diyarbakir and Agri under Seyh Enver. It was suppressed after violent fights at 7/10/1927. 2000 Kurdish fighters were killed. For many days the waters of Murat river were turned red by the blood of the slain Kurdish fighters.

 
1928 Two Kurdish uprisings took place. The first under Resul Aga at Siirt, and the second under Ali Can. Accurate information lacking, owing to Martial Law.
1930 June 2. Kurdish uprising at Agri region. It was suppressed at 18-9-30.
1930 August 31. Turkish newspaper Milliet publishes a declaration of Premier Ismet Inonu <<Only the turkish nation has the right to have national claims in this country. No other element has such a right>>.

 
1930 September 30. Turkish paper Milliet publishes a statement of the turkish minister of Justice : <<The Turk is the only master in his country. Those who are not pure Turks have one right in this country : The right to be servants, the right to be slaves>>. This is the way Turkey understands the human rights and behaves to the minorities of Armenians, Greeks, Syrians and Kurds. Even today 12 million Kurds have not a school, their language, their music and dances are prohibited, their leaders persecuted and the Kurdish people killed.

 
1935 A Kurdish uprising under Buban in Bitlis and in Siirt under Abdul Rahman takes place.
1937 A Kurdish revolution under Seyh Risa,bursts at Dersim. Details are not known because of the severe censorship by turkish authorities.
1937 May 23. The turkish government forbids the edition of the newspaper of Constantinople Son Telegraph, because it has referred to the Kurdish sufferings.
1938 November 10. Death of Kemal Ataturk, the butcher of Kurds, Greeks and Armenians who saved his country from partition.

 
1941 May. Mobilisation of 20 classes of the Greek and Armenian minorities living in Turkey and having Turkish citizenship, in order to exterminate them in the same manner, as they have already done during World War I, through the forced-labor battalions.
1942 November 11. The law of taxation on property of the non Muslims of Turkey (Varlik Vergisi ) is voted. It is a hideous attempt of economic extermination of the Greek and Armenian communities, which were exposed undefended to the excesses and abuse of power by the turkish economic authorities.

 
1955 September 6. The turkish authorities organize a great pogrom against the Greeks of Constantinople. 29 Churches were burnt and 46 looted. The graves of the Ecumenical Patriarchs and Christian cemeteries were vandalised. Thousands of shops were destroyed. Hundreds of women raped. Vandalisms at a smaller scale have takes place in Smyrna.
1974 July 20. The turkish army invades the independent and armless island of Cyprus, member of U.N.O. and seizes the 40% of it, on pretext that this is necessary for the Turkish-Cypriot minority which equals 18% of the whole population.

 
1974 July-August. Despite the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council No 353, 357, 358, 359, 360 etc which urged : <<The withdtawal without delay from the Republic of Cyprus of foreign military personnel>>. The invading turkish forces have turned into a permanent occupation army, which forl0 years does not conform with the above resolutions, despises U.N.O., challenges every conscientious man ofthe World and undermines world peace.
1978 1978 The Turkish fascist state initiates a pogrom against Alevi-muslims
all over Turkey. All over Turkey, Grey Wolves murder hundreds of people.
The place where the most people are killed is Kahramanmaras. The
repression and criminalisation of Alevi-muslims in Turkey, continous also
in the present time
 

 
1978 december 25 1978 December 25. Turkish fascists massacre hundreds of Kurds in Marash .
1978 December 28 1978 December 28. Proclamation of Martial Law in 15 provinces of Turkish
Kurdistan prohibiting for 18 years now any information about the
sufferings of the Kurdish people. The fascist government of Ankara hopes
that they will achieve by force the submission of the enslaved peoples of
Asia Minor. They hope they will continue to occupy the country of Armenia,
Kurdistan, North Cyprus and the Greek fatherland of East Thrace and West
Asia Minor. The future will prove how wrong they are. Every free and
conscientious man of the world must help for that.
 

 
1980 September 12 1980 September 12. Coup led by General Kenan Evren overthrows the
governing MHP replacing one brand of fascism with yet another lasting
until 1983.
 

 
1983 November 15 The illegal Turkish puppet regime declares independence
for the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” (“TRNC”) in the occupied
part of Cyprus which has now been systematically Ethnically Cleansed of
over 200,000 indigenous Greek Cypriots. The “illegal” declaration is
immediately “Deplored” by the UN Security Council which declares the
“Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” “Legally Invalid” in Resolutions
541(1983) and 550 (1984) which also “Condemns” this and all other
secessionist actions.
 

 
1984 Turkey begins a crackdown on Kurds seeking autonomy. In the following
years many Kurdish Villages are razed to the ground and emptied of
inhabitants who are moved to other parts of Turkey or forced to flee as
refugees. Those who speak out against the Turkish regime are summarily
imprisoned or assassinated.
 

 
1993 The Turkish brutalities against the Kurdish people continue and are
stepped up. Turkey showing ABSOLUTELY NO RESPECT for international laws
and agreements invades Northern Iraq in its attempt to butcher the Kurdish
people
 

 
1995 Turkish soldiers from the Hakkari Mountain Commando Brigade slaughter
and dismember the bodies of Kurdish resistance fighters. They then take
photographs of themselves posing with the victims of their barbaric crime
and sell them as trophies at $2 a piece.
 

 
1996 January 27 January 27. Turkish naval forces briefly invade and occupy the island
of Imia which was deemed as Greek Territory by the Paris 1947 convention.
Only US intervention prevents a war. This is part of an endless list of
challenges to Greek sovereignty, which include illegal Turkish claims to
almost every Greek island in the Aegean, even the island Crete, and the
daily violation of Greek Air Space and Territorial Waters
 

 
1996 August 12-14 Turkish occupation and security forces together with
MHP Grey Wolves terrorists sent by the Turkish Government to occupied
Cyprus brutally beat and murder Cypriot refugees peacefully protesting
against Turkeys illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing of northern
Cyprus, in the UN buffer zone in front of United Nations onlookers and the
worlds media who capture the scenes on video. Tassos Isaak is clubbed to
death on August 12 by Turkish thugs and his cousin Solomos Solomou is shot
dead on August 14 by a so-called “minister” of the puppet occupation
regime.
 

 
1996 A 58-year-old Greek Cypriot Civillian, Petros
Kakoullis, was shot and killed while out collecting Snails, by the Turkish
occupation troops, receiving three bullets, two on the chest and one on
the neck.
 

 
1999 Turkey captures Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan and after torturing
him and depriving him of legal representatives subjects him to an inhume
trial in glass cage, demanding the death penalty from a specially set-up
Kangaroo Court.
 

 
1999 The death toll of Kurds killed in Turkish military operations rises
to over 40,000 and according to the figures published by Turkeys own
“parliament”, 6,000 Kurdish Villages have been systematically emptied of
all inhabitants and 3,000,000 Kurds have been displaced.
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