The Hidden Story of Christian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire

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Published on Nov 10, 2021
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NEWS DESK | Israeli historian Benny Morris released his new book 'The Thirty-Year Genocide', which documents the persecution of Christians â€” from Greeks, to Armenians, to Assyrians â€” in the Ottoman Empire. Our Daniel Campos has the story.

Story:

World renowned Israeli historian Benny Morris sat down with i24NEWS to discuss his new body of work which seeks to unravel the systematic genocide of Christian subjects of the Ottoman Empire before and after its collapse.

As found in The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkeyâ€™s Destruction of its Christian Minorities, between 1894 and 1924, 1.5 million to 2.5 million Christians were murdered in Asia Minor.

Many of Morris and co-author Dror Zeevi's findings are not new, but their impeccably-researched tome aims to show that three distinct waves of massacres and religious persecution were all part of a single overarching effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christian population.

Written with the help of historical archives, the book makes use of testimonies from missionaries and diplomats of the time, as well as accounts from perpetrators and victims.

According to demographic research, before the three waves of violence that swept across Anatolia during this period, the regionâ€™s Christian minority accounted for 20 percent of the population. By the end of the thirty-year period, the population had been reduced to 2 percent.