IL HR0870

Recognizes the genocide of Greeks from Pontos, Asia Minor, and Eastern Thrace perpetrated by Ottoman and Kemalist governments between 1913 and 1923, resulting in approximately one million deaths.

Documents systematic persecution including forced labor battalions in July-August 1914 where Greek Christian men aged 18-48 were drafted into the Ottoman army and largely perished, and the September 1922 sacking of Smyrna where tens of thousands of Greek and Armenian inhabitants were massacred.

References the 2007 International Association of Genocide Scholars resolution affirming the genocide against Pontian and Asia Minor Greeks and Assyrians as comparable to the Armenian genocide.

Urges the Turkish government to recognize and acknowledge these historical atrocities as a means of providing closure to victims' descendants and deterring future genocides.

Condemns the Lausanne Agreement-mandated forced population exchange that ended 3,000 years of Greek presence in Anatolia and emphasizes that silence about genocide encourages future atrocities.