Could someone speak to the Greek Genocide that I believe happened concurrently with the Armenian Genocide? In what ways were they similar and in what ways did they differ?

by fortunatoisdead

My grandmother's maternal family (the Tsakgalou's) were greeks living in Constantinople at the time of the genocide and apparently my great-great grandparents were killed. Family lore has told that my great-grandparents died during some incident involving a train.

HakobG

The Greek and Armenian genocides are very similar. The Greek Genocide was specifically a genocide of to Pontic and Anatolian Greek cultures and people however, not the Greeks as a whole, whereas the Armenian Genocide effected the entire Armenian nation. I personally believe this is why the Greek Genocide isn't spoken of as much as the Armenian Genocide.

Trains were used for both. I found some pics of the Greek Genocide, one contains a train

http://www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/image/photos