On This Day June 12, 1914: Ancient Greek Community of Phocaea in Asia Minor is Massacred

A precursor to the fateful events that would happen less than a decade later in Smyrna, the Greeks of Old Phocaea along the Turkish coast suffered a horrible fate beginning on the night of June 12, 1914 when Turkish troops entered the town and began a merciless massacre of innocent civilians.

The events were captured on film by a French engineer and archaeologist named Félix Sartiaux, who was sent to Asia Minor by the French government on an archaeological excavation.

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