Persecution of Muslims is the religious persecution of Muslims as a consequence of professing their faith, both historically and in the current era.
It is estimated that in the course of World War I and the Turkish War of Independence 2.5 million people died in Anatolia while hundreds of thousands of refugees arrived from former Ottoman territories and Russia.
On May 14, 1919 a fleet of British, American and French warships brought an entire Gree...
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Persecution of Muslims is the religious persecution of Muslims as a consequence of professing their faith, both historically and in the current era.
It is estimated that in the course of World War I and the Turkish War of Independence 2.5 million people died in Anatolia while hundreds of thousands of refugees arrived from former Ottoman territories and Russia.
On May 14, 1919 a fleet of British, American and French warships brought an entire Greek division into the harbour of Smyrna. The landing was followed by a general slaughter of the Turkish population. Greek gangs roamed the streets looting and killing. As the Greek army pushed into Anatolia the local population was subjected to massacres, ravaging and raping.
Johannes Kolmodin was a Swedish orientalist in Smyrna. He wrote in his letters that the Greek army had burned 250 Turkish villages.
Following the brutal Mongol invasion of Central Asia under Genghis Khan and after the sack of Baghdad, the Mongol Empire's rule extended...
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