600 years of brutal persecution by Turkish oppressors culminated in the Greek Genocide of Asia Minor. We’ll talk historical context and introduce Asa Jennings, the humble American who said “Enough!”
Rescues, betrayal, and assassination: a civil war in the middle of the Greek Revolution resulted in Greeks killing Greeks, nearly derailing the fight for Independence. Bouboulina’s heroic feats couldn’t save her.
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What led up to the ethnic cleansing of Anatolia and the destruction of Türkiye’s most beautiful and ethnically diverse city. Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians and Jews were erased from the region for the first time in 2,500 years. Guest Helen Vardakis shares her family’s escape in 1922 from Kemal’s blueprint for genocide.
1922 The Destruction of Smyrna