Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor

Greek genocide

Background

Young Turk Revolution Ottoman Greeks Pontic Greeks Ottoman Empire

The genocide

Labour Battalions Death march Massacre of Phocaea Amasya trials Great fire of Smyrna

Foreign aid and relief:

Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor American Committee for Relief in the Near East

Responsible parties:

Young Turks or Committee of Union and Progress Three Pashas: Talat, Enver, Djemal Behaeddin Shakir Teskilati Mahsusa or Special Organization Nureddin Pasha Topal Osman

See also

Greco-Turkish War (1919–22) Greeks in Turkey Population Exchange Greek refugees Armenian Genocide Assyrian genocide Turkish courts-martial of 1919–20 Malta Tribunals

The Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor (1917–1921) was a relief organization established during World War I in response to the genocide of Greeks in the Ottoman Empire.^[1] The committee was also known as simply the Greek Relief Committee.

Executive Board

Chairman: Frank W. Jackson
Honorary Chairman: Jacob Gould Schurman
Vice-Chairman: Basile D. Dugundji
Secretary: John P. Xenides
Treasurer: Abraham E. Kazan (resigned in November 1917), Rollin P. Grant

Operations

The GRC worked through a network of foreign consuls, missionaries and relief workers located at various points in the Ottoman Empire. In doing so, its working methods were similar to those of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief (ACASR), which was also in action during World War I. It also cooperated with American diplomatic institutions in Athens and Thessaloniki to aid refugees arriving from Turkey.^[2]

References

↑ Nikolaos Hlamides, "The Greek Relief Committee: America's Response to the Greek Genocide," Genocide Studies and Prevention 3, 3 (December 2008): 375–383
↑ Nikolaos Hlamides, "The Greek Relief Committee: America's Response to the Greek Genocide," Genocide Studies and Prevention 3, 3 (December 2008): 375–383.

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