Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor
The Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor (1917–1921) was a relief organization established during World War I in response to the genocide of Greeks in the Ottoman Empire. The committee was also known as simply the "Greek Relief Committee".
Executive Board.
- Chairman: Frank W. Jackson
- Honorary Chairman: Jacob Gould Schurman
- Vice-Chairman: Basile D. Dugundji
- Secretary: John P. Xenides
- Treasurer: Abraham E. Kazan (resigned in November
that occurred during the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, British historian Arnold J. Toynbee wrote that it was the Greek landings that created the Turkish National Movement led by Mustafa Kemal: "The Greeks of 'Pontus' and the Turks of the Greek occupied territories, were in some degree victims of Mr. Venizelos's and Mr. Lloyd George's original miscalculations at Paris."
Events Relief efforts.
In 1917 a relief organization by the name of the Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor was formed in response to the deportations and