The greek genocide was done prior to 1927; and here is the wiki pages detailing it;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide
That was the First World War, in which 16.5 million died. The Germans and Austrians killed 3.3 million Russians, 1.7 million French people and 1.2 million British subjects, and they in turn killed 2.5 million Germans and 1.5 million Austro-Hungarians, but nobody calls that a genocide. So why should it be different for the Greeks and Armenians ? Because they were less well equipped to fight back ? Because they were civilians ? Almost 7 million civilians died in WWI. That's war. Once again I reiterate my question to the Greeks on this forum that hold deep-rooted grudges and hatred against the Turks. Is that because of events that happened in WWI, before any of you, your parents and probably your grandparents were even born ?
There would be no European Union if people didn't learn to forgive and get over with their lives and start rebuilding new relationships learning from past mistakes, no mater how gruesome. Yet it is France and Germany, the two giant archenemy of erstwhile, that decided to cement peace for future generations through mutual friendship and cooperation. They set the example for the continent and the EU has been a success in fostering peace, respect and multiculturalism. The only people who haven't learned their lessons yet are the Greeks. I think this should be ground enough to expel Greece from the EU, until it has found a way to mend its relationship with Turkey. Until then both countries should be on a waiting list. The only reason that Greece was accepted so early in the EU was the prestige of its ancient history among Europeans. What I see here is that a lot of Greeks aren't mature enough for the EU, not more than countries like Serbia, that only seek to conflict with its neighbours.
Maybe you confuse the two seratate instances of the greek genocide and the constantinople progrom.
We were discussing the Istanbul pogrom. I quoted the figure of 15 people killed and you quoted me saying it was between 250,000 to 350,000. It's you who brought up the WWI casualties to illustrate the 1955 pogrom - two completely unrelated events in place and time. I probably misunderstood you because I don't use the word "genocide" for war casualties (unless there is a true, organised extermination programme, with specially designed camps, to completely eradicate a whole ethnic group from the face of the Earth, like the Nazi intended with the Jews).
Big difference between emegrating to countries and land of origin and significance. Cyprus was colonised by greeks in ancient times before alexander.
A small minority only, as I explained, and as attested by DNA. Greeks are closer to Western Turks than to Cypriots.
I think the use of Anatolia as the term would be better.
All right, then to show my goodwill I have changed the Y-DNA table entry to "Turkey/Anatolia". I think it's just a matter of phrasing. What the Greeks call Constantinople is Istanbul to the Turks. Most cities in Asia Minor have both Greek and Turkish names. The Turks call Greece Yunanistan, the Greeks call it Ellada, while almost everybody else call it Greece, Grèce, Grecia, Griechenland or the like. Whether you call it Anatolia or Asia Minor or Turkey or something else, that's the place that matters, not the name.