This is a list of massacres against ethnic Turks.
Name | Date | Present location | Perpetrators | Deaths |
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Persecution of Muslims during the Ottoman contraction | 19th and early 20th centuries | Former Ottoman territories | Russian Empire, Tsardom of Bulgaria, France, Kingdom of Serbia, Kingdom of Greece, Kingdom of Montenegro | At least 2 million,[1][2] up to 5.5 million[3][4][5][6][7] |
Massacres of the Turkish population during the Russo-Turkish War | April 1877–March 1878 | Balkans and Caucasus | Armies of the Russian Coalition, mainly Russian Army | 250,000–600,000[8][9] |
Deportation of the Meskhetian Turks | 14–15 November 1944 | Meskheti, Georgia | NKVD | 12,589–50,000 |
Buda massacre | September 1686 | Buda, Hungary | Armies of the Holy League | +3,000[10] |
Navarino massacre[11] | 19 August 1821 | Pylos, Greece | Greek revolutionaries | 3,000 |
Tripolitsa massacre[12] | 23 September 1821 | Tripoli, Greece | Greek revolutionaries | 6,000–30,000[13][14] |
Galați massacre | 20 February 1821 | Galați, Romania | Greek revolutionaries | 50–300[15] |
Massacres of the Turkish population during the April Uprising | April–May 1876 | Bulgaria | Bulgarian revolutionaries | 200–1,000[16][17][18] |
Harmanli massacre | 16–17 January 1878 | Harmanli, Bulgaria | Russian Army | 2,000-5,000[19] |
Kızanlık massacres | 1877-78 | Kazanlak, Bulgaria | Russian Army, Bulgarians | 1,751[20] |
Lasithi massacres | 1897 | Crete, Greece | Christian mobs | 850–1,000[21][22] |
Sarakina massacre | February 1897 | Crete, Greece | Christian mobs | 104 (61 children, 23 women and 20 men)[23] |
Sitia massacre | February 1897 | Sitia, Crete, Greece | Christian mob | 300[24] |
Kissamos massacre | February 1897 | Kissamos, Crete, Greece | Christian mob | 23[24] |
Kirchova massacre | August 1903 | Kichevo, North Macedonia | Bulgarian revolutionaries | 8[25] |
Raionovo, Planitsa and Kukurtevo massacres | Autumn 1912 | Raionovo, Planitsa and Kukurtevo, Macedonia | Bulgarian irregulars | +700[26][27] |
Cisr-i Mustafapaşa massacre | October 1912 | Svilengrad, Bulgaria | Bulgarians | 200[28] |
Edeköy massacre | 1912 | Edeköy, Edirne, Turkey | Greeks | 1,659[29] |
Serres massacre | 1912 | Serres, Greece | Bulgarians | 600[30] |
Dedeagac massacre | 1912 | Alexandroupolis, Greece | Armenians | 20[30] |
Bulgarian school massacre | 1912 | Chair quarter of Uskub, North Macedonia | Serbians | 18[30] |
Ohrid massacre | 1912 | Ohrid, North Macedonia | Serbians | 500[31] |
Strumica massacre | 1912 | Strumitsa, North Macedonia | Greeks | 3,000[30] |
Petrovo massacre | 1912 | Petrovo | Bulgarians | "every living Turkish thing"[32] |
Yaylacık massacre | 1912 | Yaylacık, close to Salonica | Greeks | 15[30] |
Salonica massacre | 1912 | Salonica | Greeks | 27[32] |
Derin Çatak massacre | 1912 | Malkara | Bulgarians | 11[33] |
Avrethisar villages massacre | 1912-1913 | Kilkis | Bulgarians | 451[34] |
Pravishte massacres | 1912-1913 | Eleftheroupoli | Greeks | 195[30] |
Kaz massacre | March 1913 | Yukarı Kılıçlı | Bulgarians | 43[35] |
Karasatı massacre | June 1913 | Karasatı, Keşan | Bulgarians and Greeks | 29[36] |
Uzunköprü massacre | July 1913 | Uzunköprü | Bulgarians | 42[37][38] |
Habibçe massacre | July 1913 | Lyubimets | Bulgarians | 20[38] |
Greek landing at Smyrna | 15 May 1919 | İzmir | Hellenic Army and local Greeks | 400–600[39] |
Yeşiloba massacre | 11 June 1920 | Yeşiloba, Adana | French Armenian Legion | 64–200[40] |
Menemen massacre | 17 June 1919 | Menemen, İzmir | Hellenic Army and local Greeks | 200 |
Massacre in Erbeyli | 20–21 June 1919 | Erbeyli, Aydın | Hellenic Army | 72 |
Birecik massacre | 11–24 February 1920 | Birecik, Şanlıurfa | French Army | 280[41] |
Massacre in Marash | 1920 | Marash | French Army and French Armenian Legion | 4,500[42][43] |
Massacre in Aintab | 1920-1921 | Aintab | French Army and French Armenian Legion | 6,000-7,000[41][44] |
Yalova Peninsula massacres[45] | 1920–1921 | Armutlu Peninsula | Hellenic Army, local Christians and Circassians[46] | 5,500–9,100[47][48] |
Bilecik massacre[49] | March–April 1921 | Bilecik, Sögüt, Bozüyük | Hellenic Army and local Greeks | 208[50] |
İzmit massacre[51] | 24 June 1921 | İzmit | Hellenic Army | 300[52][53] |
Karatepe village massacre | 14 February 1922 | Karatepe, Köşk | Hellenic Army | 385[54] |
Uşak massacre | 1 September 1922 | Uşak | Hellenic Army and local Greeks | 200[55] |
Alaşehir massacre[56] | 3–4 September 1922 | Alaşehir, Manisa | Hellenic Army | 3,000[57] |
Turgutlu massacre | 4–6 September 1922 | Turgutlu, Manisa | Hellenic Army | 1,000[57] |
Salihli massacre | 5 September 1922 | Salihli, Manisa | Hellenic Army | +76[58] |
Manisa massacre[59][circular reference] | 6–7 September 1922 | Manisa | Hellenic Army and local Christians | 4,355[60][57] |
1924 Kirkuk massacre | 4 May 1924 | Kirkuk, Iraq | Iraq Levies | +200[61] |
Suşiçe massacre | April 1941 | Sušica | Kingdom of Bulgaria | 7[62] |
Blatec executions | September 1944 | Blatec | Kingdom of Bulgaria | 15[62] |
Istibanje-Teranci massacres | October 1944 | Istibanja and Teranci | Nazi Germany | 17[62] |
Gavurbağı massacre | 12 July 1946 | Kirkuk, Iraq | Iraqi Police | 20 |
1959 Kirkuk massacre | 15 July 1959 | Kirkuk, Iraq | Kurdish soldiers | 31-79[61] |
Limassol massacre | 13 February 1963 | Limassol, Cyprus | Greek Cypriots | 16[63] |
Bloody Christmas[64][65] | 21–31 December 1963 | Nicosia, Cyprus | Greek Cypriots | 364[66] |
Massacre in Famagusta | 11 May 1964 | Famagusta, Cyprus | Cypriot Police | 10–17[67][68] |
Massacre in Akrotiri and Dhekelia | 13 May 1964 | Akrotiri and Dhekelia | Cypriot Police and local Cypriots | 11[67][68] |
Massacre in Kofinou | 14–15 November 1967 | Kofinou, Cyprus | Greek Cypriots | 26[69][63] |
Massacre in Alaminos[70] | 20 July 1974 | Alaminos, Cyprus | Cypriot National Guard | 13–14[71][72] |
Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda massacre | 14 August 1974 | Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda, Cyprus | EOKA B | 126[73][74] |
Tochni massacre | 15 August 1974 | Taşkent, Cyprus | EOKA B | 84[67] |
Fergana massacre | 3–12 June 1989 | Fergana valley, Uzbekistan | Uzbek mobs | 97[75] |
Bulgarization of Turks in People's Republic of Bulgaria | 1984-1989 | Bulgaria | Bulgarian army | 300 to 1,500 (according to HRW)[76] |
Altun Kupri massacre | 28 March 1991 | Altun Kupri, Iraq | Iraqi Army | 135[77] |
Çewlik massacre | 24 May 1993 | Bingöl, Turkey | Kurdistan Workers' Party | 38 |
Başbağlar massacre | 5 July 1993 | Başbağlar, Turkey | Kurdistan Workers' Party | 33 |
Yavi massacre | 25 October 1993 | Erzurum, Turkey | Kurdistan Workers' Party | 33[78] |
Erbil massacre | 31 August 1996 | Erbil | Iraqi Armed Forces | 48 |
Blue market massacre | 13 March 1999 | Istanbul, Turkey | Kurdistan Workers' Party | 13 |
Turkmen genocide by ISIL | 2014-2017 | Kirkuk, Saladin, Diyala, Erbil and Nineveh, Iraq | ISIL | 3,500[79] |
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At the same time bands of Christian irregulars, Greek Armenian, and Circassian, looted, burned and murdered in the Yalove-Gemlik peninsula.
To protect their flanks from harassment, Greek military authorities then encouraged irregular bands of armed men to attack and destroy Turkish populations of the region they proposed to abandon. By the time the Red Crescent vessel arrived at Yalova from Constantinople in the last week of May, fourteen out of sixteen villages in that town's immediate hinterland had been destroyed, and there were only 1500 survivors from the 7000 Moslems who had been living in these communities.
' But at 1 P.M. on Friday the 24th June, three and a half days before the Greek evacuation, the male inhabitants of the two Turkish quarters of Baghcheshmé and Tepekhané, in the highest part of the town, away from the sea, had been dragged out to the cemetery and shot in batches. On Wednesday the 29th I was present when two of the graves were opened, and ascertained for myself that the corpses were those of Moslems and that their arms had been pinioned behind their backs. There were thought to be about sixty corpses in that group of graves, and there were several others. In all, over 300 people were missing—a death-roll probably exceeding that at Smyrna on the 15th and 16th May 1919.
Two thirds of Salihli, with a population of 10,000, only a tenth of whom were Greeks, had been burned over, seventy-six people were known to have burned to death, and a hundred young girls were said to have been taken away by Greek
The trade of the Turkish community had considerably declined during the period, due to the existing situation, and unemployment reached a very high level as approximately 25,000 Turkish Cypriots had become refugees.