This is a list of massacres against ethnic Turks.
Name | Date | Present location | Perpetrators | Deaths | |
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Persecution of Muslims during the Ottoman contraction | 19th and early 20th centuries | Former Ottoman territories | Russian Empire, Tsardom of Bulgaria, France, Kingdom of Serbia, Kingdom of Greece, Kingdom of Montenegro, Armenia | At least 2 million,[1] [2] up to 5.5 million[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] | -- auto-translated from Turkish by Module:CS1 translator --> |
Massacres of the Turkish population during the Russo-Turkish War | April 1877–March 1878 | Balkans and Caucasus | Armies of the Russian Coalition, mainly Russian Army | 250,000–600,000[8] [9] | |
Deportation of the Meskhetian Turks | 14–15 November 1944 | Meskheti, Georgia | NKVD | 12,589–50,000 | |
Buda massacre | September 1686 | Buda, Hungary | Armies of the Holy League | +3,000[10] | |
Navarino massacre[11] | 19 August 1821 | Pylos, Greece | Greek revolutionaries | 3,000 | |
Tripolitsa massacre[12] | 23 September 1821 | Tripoli, Greece | Greek revolutionaries | 6,000–30,000[13] [14] | |
Galați massacre | 20 February 1821 | Galați, Romania | Greek revolutionaries | 50–300[15] | |
Massacres of the Turkish population during the April Uprising | April–May 1876 | Bulgarian revolutionaries | 200–1,000[16] [17] [18] | ||
Harmanli massacre | 16–17 January 1878 | Harmanli, Bulgaria | Russian Army | 2,000[19] | |
Kızanlık massacres | 1877-78 | Kazanlak, Bulgaria | Russian Army, Bulgarians | 1,751[20] | |
Lasithi massacres | 1897 | Crete, Greece | Christian mobs | 850–1,000[21] [22] | |
Sarakina massacre | February 1897 | Crete, Greece | Christian mobs | 104 (61 children, 23 women and 20 men)[23] | |
Sitia massacre | February 1897 | Sitia, Crete, Greece | Christian mob | 300[24] | |
Kissamos massacre | February 1897 | Kissamos, Crete, Greece | Christian mob | 23 | |
Kirchova massacre | August 1903 | Kichevo, North Macedonia | Bulgarian revolutionaries | 8[25] | |
Raionovo, Planitsa and Kukurtevo massacres | Autumn 1912 | Raionovo, Planitsa and Kukurtevo, Macedonia | Bulgarian irregulars | +700[26] [27] | |
Cisr-i Mustafapaşa massacre | October 1912 | Svilengrad, Bulgaria | Bulgarians | 200[28] | |
Edeköy massacre | 1912 | Edeköy, Edirne, Turkey | Greeks | 1,659[29] | |
Serres massacre | 1912 | Serres, Greece | Bulgarians | 600[30] | |
Dedeagac massacre | 1912 | Dedeagac, Greece | Armenians | 20 | |
Bulgarian school massacre | 1912 | Chair quarter of Uskub, North Macedonia | Serbians | 18 | |
Ohrid massacre | 1912 | Ohrid, North Macedonia | Serbians | 500[31] | |
Strumica massacre | 1912 | Strumitsa, North Macedonia | Greeks | 3,000 | |
Petrovo massacre | 1912 | Petrovo | Bulgarians | "every living Turkish thing"[32] | |
Yaylacık massacre | 1912 | Yaylacık, close to Salonica | Greeks | 15 | |
Salonica massacre | 1912 | Salonica | Greeks | 27 | |
Derin Çatak massacre | 1912 | Malkara | Bulgarians | 11[33] | |
Avrethisar villages massacre | 1912-1913 | Kilkis | Bulgarians | 451[34] | |
Pravishte massacres | 1912-1913 | Pravishte | Greeks | 195 | |
Kaz massacre | March 1913 | Yukarı Kılıçlı | Bulgarians | 43[35] | |
Karasatı massacre | June 1913 | Karasatı, Keşan | Bulgarians and Greeks | 29[36] | |
Uzunköprü massacre | July 1913 | Uzunköprü | Bulgarians | 42[37] [38] | |
Habibçe massacre | July 1913 | Lyubimets | Bulgarians | 20 | |
Greek landing at Smyrna | 15 May 1919 | İzmir | Hellenic Army and local Greeks | 400–600[39] | |
Yeşiloba massacre | 11 June 1920 | Yeşiloba, Adana | French Armenian Legion | 64–200[40] | |
Menemen massacre | 17 June 1919 | Menemen, İzmir | Hellenic Army and local Greeks | 200 | |
Massacre in Erbeyli | 20–21 June 1919 | Erbeyli, Aydın | Hellenic Army | 72 | |
Birecik massacre | 11–24 February 1920 | Birecik, Şanlıurfa | French Army | 280 | |
Massacre in Marash | 1920 | Marash | French Army and French Armenian Legion | 4,500[41] [42] | |
Massacre in Aintab | 1920-1921 | Aintab | French Army and French Armenian Legion | 6,000-7,000[43] | |
Yalova Peninsula massacres[44] | 1920–1921 | Armutlu Peninsula | Hellenic Army, local Christians and Circassians[45] | 5,500–9,100[46] [47] | |
Bilecik massacre[48] | March–April 1921 | Bilecik, Sögüt, Bozüyük | Hellenic Army and local Greeks | 208[49] | |
İzmit massacre[50] | 24 June 1921 | İzmit | Hellenic Army | 300[51] [52] | |
Karatepe village massacre | 14 February 1922 | Karatepe, Köşk | Hellenic Army | 385[53] | |
Uşak massacre | 1 September 1922 | Uşak | Hellenic Army and local Greeks | 200[54] | |
Alaşehir massacre[55] | 3–4 September 1922 | Alaşehir, Manisa | Hellenic Army | 3,000[56] | |
Turgutlu massacre | 4–6 September 1922 | Turgutlu, Manisa | Hellenic Army | 1,000 | |
Salihli massacre | 5 September 1922 | Salihli, Manisa | Hellenic Army | +76[57] | |
Manisa massacre[58] | 6–7 September 1922 | Manisa | Hellenic Army and local Christians | 4,355[59] | |
1924 Kirkuk massacre | 4 May 1924 | Kirkuk, Iraq | Iraq Levies | +200 | |
Suşiçe massacre | April 1941 | Sušica | Kingdom of Bulgaria | 7[60] | |
Blatec executions | September 1944 | Blatec | Kingdom of Bulgaria | 15 | |
Istibanje-Teranci massacres | October 1944 | Istibanja and Teranci | Nazi Germany | 17 | |
Gavurbağı massacre | 12 July 1946 | Kirkuk, Iraq | Iraqi Police | 20 | |
1959 Kirkuk massacre | 15 July 1959 | Kirkuk, Iraq | Kurdish soldiers | 31-79 | |
Limassol massacre | 13 February 1963 | Limassol, Cyprus | Greek Cypriots | 16[61] | |
Bloody Christmas[62] [63] | 21–31 December 1963 | Nicosia, Cyprus | Greek Cypriots | 364[64] | |
Massacre in Famagusta | 11 May 1964 | Famagusta, Cyprus | Cypriot Police | 10–17[65] [66] | |
Massacre in Akrotiri and Dhekelia | 13 May 1964 | Akrotiri and Dhekelia | Cypriot Police and local Cypriots | 11 | |
Massacre in Kofinou | 14–15 November 1967 | Kofinou, Cyprus | Greek Cypriots | 26[67] | |
Massacre in Alaminos[68] | 20 July 1974 | Alaminos, Cyprus | Cypriot National Guard | 13–14[69] [70] | |
Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda massacre | 14 August 1974 | Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda, Cyprus | EOKA B | 126[71] [72] | |
Tochni massacre | 15 August 1974 | Taşkent, Cyprus | EOKA B | 84 | |
Fergana massacre | 3–12 June 1989 | Fergana valley, Uzbekistan | Uzbek mobs | 97[73] | |
Bulgarization of Turks in People's Republic of Bulgaria | 1984-1989 | Bulgaria | Bulgarian army | 300 to 1,500 (according to HRW)[74] | |
Altun Kupri massacre | 28 March 1991 | Altun Kupri, Iraq | Iraqi Army | 135[75] | |
Çewlik massacre | 24 May 1993 | Bingöl, Turkey | Kurdistan Workers' Party | 38 | |
Başbağlar massacre | 5 July 1993 | Başbağlar, Turkey | Kurdistan Workers' Party | 33 | |
Yavi massacre | 25 October 1993 | Erzurum, Turkey | Kurdistan Workers' Party | 33[76] | |
Erbil massacre | 31 August 1996 | Erbil | Iraqi Armed Forces | 48 | |
Blue market massacre | 13 March 1999 | Istanbul, Turkey | Kurdistan Workers' Party | 13 | |
Turkmen genocide by ISIL | 2014-2017 | Kirkuk, Saladin, Diyala, Erbil and Nineveh, Iraq | ISIL | 3,500[77] |
Fourteen Turkish Cypriots were murdered at the village of Alaminos on 20 July.