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The ruined Armenian quarter of Smyrna, 1922
№ 0607 · Photograph

The ruined Armenian quarter of Smyrna, 1922

The ruined Armenian quarter of Smyrna (Izmir) in 1922.

During the Smyrna massacre at least thousands of the city’s Armenian and Greek inhabitants were killed. Turkish sources claim that Armenians and Greeks started the fire in order to tarnish the reputation of the Turkish military. Today only a few tens of thousands of Christian Armenians remain in Turkey.

The photograph shows a street with piles of stones and ruined buildings on both sides. At the top is an inscription in French: “Turkey”.

Archive No.
0607
Date
1922
Place
Smyrna (Izmir)
Region
Other places
Topics
GenocideArchitecture

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