My grandmother came to the US from Turkey.
She traveled with an Armenian woman who was coming here also. The woman told her she saw people impaled on sticks. Armenians were crammed into rail cars and sent out into the desert where they were put out of the cars and the trains left them there.
Greeks (like us) and Armenians were shoved out of the country and forced to leave with nothing... and some, like the Armenians, were murdered outright.
It was much worse for the Armenians.
THEY were all wealthy. They had gold, property, etc. They were professors, attorneys, merchants... that’s why the Turks were not satisfied to just deport them.
My grandmother said SOME Turks were humane. They gave the Greeks bread and water on their forced march to the boats. Sometimes they found coins in the bread... it was the exception and not the rule, but it is to the Turk’s credit that some of them felt guilty about what was going on.
I remember reading an article in Life Magazine when I was a kid back in the 1950’s. It had pictures of masses of Greeks being driven onto ships in Turkey for deportation.
Back then I didn’t understand it. I understand it very well now. There were Greeks and Armenians and Chaldean Christians living in Asia Minor before any Turk was around there. The Muslims have a long and bloody history - which has continued to the present - of smothering into extinction any religion or race who disagrees with Islam.
Islam is evil.