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Compiled by N. Karas and A. Tsilfidis for and on behalf of the GGRC.

Deportation was a common method used to bring about the destruction of Greek (Rum) communities in the Ottoman Empire between 1913-1923. The list below documents over 500 deportations conducted during this period in the general region that constitutes modern day Turkey. Deportations were conducted before, during and after the First World War. A report by the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief dated June 8, 1918 stated that half of the deportees perished from torture and illness.

For the purpose of this study, a deportation is considered a mass movement of a community or settlement by way of force. Communities that fled of their own free will are generally not included. Communities deported to unknown locations (usually to the interior of Asia Minor) are also not included since their destinations remain unknown. For deportations to Greece or Bulgaria where the exact destination is not mentioned in the source, the closest destination point in those two countries is used. Those deported from western Asia Minor to Greece were often deported to the closest island therefore the island is used as the destination.

The list is not complete and more deportations will be added as more sources are reviewed. Last updated Jun 2022.

The following sources were used:  

A - Ecumenical Patriarchate, Constantinople. Persecution of the Greeks in Turkey 1914-1918. The Hesperia Press, London 1919.
B - Mark H. Ward, The Deportations in Asia Minor, 1921-1922. London: Anglo-Hellenic League, 1922.
C - Ecumenical Patriarchate, Constantinople. The Black Book of the Sufferings of the Greek People in Turkey from the Armistice to the end of 1920. Constantinople: Press of the Patriarchate, 1920.
D - The Exodus: Testimonies from the Regions of the Western Shoreline of Asia Minor. Volume A. Center of Asia Minor Studies, Athens 1980. In Greek.
E - The Exodus: Testimonies from the Regions of Central and Southern Asia Minor. Volume B. Center of Asia Minor Studies, Athens 2004. In Greek.
F - The Exodus: Testimonies from the Central Regions of Pontus. Volume C. Center of Asia Minor Studies, Athens 2013. In Greek
G - Carroll N. Brown Ph.D and Theodore P. Ion D.C.L. Persecution of the Greeks in Turkey since the beginning of the European War. Oxford University Press, 1918.
H - U.S Department of State. 867.4016/123
I - Central Council of Pontus. Black Book: The Tragedy of Pontus. Athens 1922.
J - The New Near East, Feb 1923. Near East Relief, New York 1923.
K - The Exodus: Testimonies from the Eastern Seashores of Pontus. Volume D. Center of Asia Minor Studies, 2nd ed, Athens 2018. In Greek
L - The Exodus: Testimonies from the Western shoreline of Pontus and Paphlagonia. Volume E. Center of Asia Minor Studies, Athens 2016. In Greek