68 Greek names listed in book “The Genocide of the Greeks in Turkey – Survivor Testimonies from The Nicomedia (Izmit) Massacres of 1920-1921” by Kostas Faltaits
68 Greek names listed in book “The Genocide of the Greeks in Turkey – Survivor Testimonies from The Nicomedia (Izmit) Massacres of 1920-1921” by Kostas Faltaits, published in English by Cosmos Publishing, 2016. The book shocked Greek readers when it was first published in November of 1921 under the title ‘These are the Turks – Narratives of the massacres in Nicomedia.’ “It was then that Greeks read with quite some detail the manner in which the Christian population of Asia Minor was annihilated. Greek public opinion was of the view that this chronicle was a document of national importance which had to be distributed to the entire population.” Book description: In March of 1921, journalist Kostas Faltaits arrived in Asia Minor (today’s Turkey) sent by newspaper Embros to cover Greece’s movements in the Greco-Turkish War. By the time he arrived in the region of Nicomedia (today’s Izmit) - a region inhabited by a large number of Greek, Armenian and Circassia...