They sold them enormous quantities of military supplies. withdrew their armed forces from territory which they should have protected. and signified a willingness for the Angora government. under Kemal Pasha. to repudiate the Sevres treaty and to light again the fires of war. In this situation the -Turks continued their persecution of the Greeks and Armenians and other Christians who were within Anatolia. Hundreds of thousands of Greeks were deported and thousands of them butchered and subjected to privations and hardships which resulted in death. The history of the treatment of the Potian Greeks is as tragic as many of the pages which record the cruelties and persecutions inflicted upon the Armenians. Tens of thousands of them were driven to Russia. and large numbers. after their homes were pillaged and towns destroyed. succeeded in escaping from their cruel persecutors and finally found their way into Greece or Constantinople or other cities and sections where there was temporary relief at least from the vengeful hand of the pursuing Turk.
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