Mustapha Khaznadar was born of Greek ancestry as '' ' Georgios Kalkias Stravelakis ' '' on the island of Chios in 1817 . In January 1822 , rebels from the neighboring islands of Samos arrived on Chios and declared their independence from the Ottoman Empire , the Ottoman sultan soon sent an army of about 40,000 to the island of Chios , where roughly 52,000 Greek inhabitants were massacred and tens of thousands of women and children were taken into slavery . During the Chios massacre , Georgios 's father , the sailor Stephanis Kalkias Stravelakis , was killed , while Georgios along with his brother Yannis were captured and sold into slavery by the Ottomans . He was then taken to Smyrna and then Constantinople , where he was sold as a slave to an envoy of the Husainid Dynasty
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Chios massacre
Mustapha Khaznadar