Today, Turkey’s Christians (Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians) comprise only around 0.1% of the population despite being indigenous peoples of the land. A significant reason for this population collapse is the Christian genocide committed by the Ottoman government and the Turkish nationalist movement from 1913 to 1923.
Over a hundred years later, Turkish government officials are not only aggressively denying this genocide and threatening to prosecute Turkish citizens who publicly address it—they are also trying to prevent other governments from officially recognizing the genocide.
The most recent example of such obstruction occurred in the Australian State of Victoria. A motion to recognize the genocide of Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians was expected to be introduced in the Victorian Parliament on October 29th by Greens leader Samantha Ratnam but was dropped.
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