Massacre of Phocaea | |
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Part of the Greek genocide | |
Location | Phocaea/Eskifoça and Yeni Foça, Ottoman Empire |
Date | 12–18 June 1914 |
Target | Greek population |
Attack type | Ethnic cleansing, genocidal massacre, mass murder |
Deaths | c. 50,[1] 100[2] or 200 killed,[3] c. 6,200 fled (entire town)[4][5] The county population decreased from 23,000 to 4,000[6] |
Perpetrators | Turkish irregulars (Bashi-bazouk, Cretan Turks) Ottoman army[6] Ottoman police ordered by the Young Turk government |
Motive | Anti-Greek sentiment and Turkification |
The massacre of Phocaea (Greek: Η Σφαγή της Φώκαιας, romanized: I Sfagí tis Fókaias; Turkish: Foça Katliamı) occurred in June 1914, as part of the ethnic cleansing policies of the Ottoman Empire that included exile, massacre and deportations.[7] It was perpetrated by irregular Turkish bands against the predominantly ethnic Greek[8] town of Phocaea, modern Foça, on the east coast of the Aegean Sea.[9] The massacre was part of a wider anti-Greek campaign of genocide launched by the Young Turk Ottoman authorities, which included boycott, intimidation, forced deportations and mass killings;[10] and was one of the worst attacks during the summer of 1914.[7]
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