The massacres of Greeks and other Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire during World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ) led to the almost total depopulation of the town 's 6,500 Greek inhabitants by 1918 . These former inhabitants became propertyless refugees in Greece , or died in Ottoman forced labour battalions ( cf. Number 31328 , an autobiography by a Greek-speaking novelist from a similar coastal town in Turkey )
massacres of Greeks
Greek genocide
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