"Hilmar Kaiser deepened this notion and demonstrated in purely historical yet extremely detailed research that the treatment of the Armenians and Syriacs, nothing short of genocide, and the deportation of Kurds and Greeks were integral parts of the CUP scheme of social engineering. Arguing that this scheme envisioned the cultural assimilation of Muslims and exclusion of non-Muslims, he drew a parallel with wartime Nazi policies in Eastern Europe by aptly characterizing the project as "Generalplan Ost 1915"."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Greek_genocide
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Greek genocide
44 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Greek genocide →
Related Quotes
"The two present threats to Turkish territorial integrity—by the Greeks and the French—and the one potential threat—an…"
"The nation, beginning with the areas of trade and language, was to be cleansed from “foreign elements” in order to es…"
"Turkish denialism of the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians is official, riven, driven, constant, rampant and increasi…"
"It is believed that in Turkey between 1913 and 1922, under the successive regimes of the Young Turks and of Mustafa K…"
"Most of the Armenians had already been massacred during the reign of the Sultan, in 1915—1916; Kemal attempted to con…"
"The period of transition from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to the foundation of the Turkish Republic was charac…"
"Yet this was only the beginning of a wave of ethnic conflict that would fundamentally transform the social structure …"
"For CUP's leaders, attacking the country's Greeks was a means to purify the core regions of Turkey. Talaat Pasha made…"
"To the appalled George Horton, who desperately tried to buy a few Greeks and Armenians safe passage with his own mone…"
"While the death toll in the trenches of Western Europe were close to 2 million by the summer of 1915, the exterminati…"