Testimony of Eleni Karantonis from Pinarbasi.“As far as Eski Sehir our people advanced without any resistance from the TURKISH SIDE. Then the Turks resisted. The AGGRESION began from both Greeks and Turks. Our people used to put the Turkish women inside the Mosques and they burned them. The Turks saw this and retaliated. They started to slaughter and burn “… “Our elders left and left the local Greek civilians to the mercy the Turks ….The Turks came advanced slaughtering the Greek population, so did our troops to the local Turkish populations….The last army unit that passed through Pinarbasi was the unit headed by General Plastiras… He was the officer that wormed the families who did not leave “Watch carefully the fires on the heights, when you see that fires forming a cross, then you will know that the slaughter will begin.” How did he know that? Some crypto-Christians gave the information. About a dozen families remained from the Greek residents of Bunarmapasi. Most of them were raped and slaughtered. The rest who managed to escape and arrived in Smyrna were slaughtered by Kemal’s troops. We were in Smyrna. At night the Chetes (Turkish irregular troops) made an attack to seize and slaughter people who were hiding. Help!!! Help!! People were shouting. The English ships were close. They were throwing the headlights. The Turks stopped for a while. They attacked again. At night we wanted to go for our needs. Horror was all around. We found ourselves in a havuza, bodies were strewn all around and the havuza was full of heads…. It was terrible ‘those who saw it went crazy. There, in this place, we lost our Father. Note: Pinarbasi (11km North East of Smyrna with 1000 population, 800 Greeks) \\https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwxlwy4bc6c ΠΡΟΓΟΝΙΚΕΣ ΕΣΤΙΕΣ -ΕΛΙΣΑΒΕΤ ΚΑΠΛΑΝΟΓΛΟΥ ΑΝΘΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ 93 ΕΤΩΝ ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΕΣ ΓΙΑ ΔΙΩΞΕΙΣ ΣΤΟΝ ΠΟΝΤΟΗ ΜΑΥΡΗ ΒΙΒΛΟΣ ΔΙΩΓΜΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑΣ https://wordpress.com/post/timesforchange.wordpress.com/7286 |
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