Greek-Genocide by Turks
How the Greeks of Mamora were expelled from their homes and scattered among the villages around Kermasti
or the unwritten testament of the Greeks who were forced to embrace Mohamedanism.
Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor, 1918?
With an introduction by N.G. Kyriakides, Delegate of the Central Committee of Unredeemed Greeks, Athenes, Greece. published on Greek-genocide
The Marmora (or Marmara) Island (today Marmara Adasi) is a large island in the Sea of Marmara situated some
100 km south-west of Constantinople (Istanbul). It was a purely Greek island whose population in the early part
of the 20th century was 15,000 Greeks.
In June of 1915, government officials began knocking on doors and advising Greeks that they were being deported
to the Asia Minor mainland. They were sent to a place inhabited purely by Turks called Kermasti (today Mustafakemalpasa)
situated some 60km to the interior of Asia Minor in the Bursa district. Others were sent to Apollonias and Michalitch.
This 13 page leaflet comprises the testimony of Mr P.Theodosios who describes the persecution of the
Greeks of Marmora which includes their deportation, assassinations and beatings, deprivation of adequate food, forced
taking of Greek girls by Turks and the destruction of their schools and churches.
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