List of press headlines relevant to the Pontic Greek Genocide

Following is a selected list of press headlines relevant to the Pontic Greek [...] in chronological order, as recorded in The New York Times archives. The Newspaper was awarded its first Pulitzer Prize in 1918 "for the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American newspaper -- complete and accurate coverage of the war". More media of the time reported the events with similar titles.

Yet, modern works of history criticized these articles on the grounds that while reporting the atrocities perpetrated against the Greek civilians, they failed to mention AbOUT the Massacres of Turks in the Greek occupied areas of Turkey, following the Greek occupation of Smyrna

Headlines from The New York Times	Date	Page
Greece Tells Turks to Stop Expulsions	June 13 1914	p.3
Turks Slay 100 Greeks	June 17 1914	p.6
Turks Deporting Greeks	August 21 1916	p.2
1,000,000 Greeks Killed?	January 1 1918	p.15
(Einstein, L.) Tells of Turkish Cruelty To Greeks	August 26 1918	p.9
Turk Brutality Recorded: 3.290 Captured British Reported Dead and 2.222 Missing	November 21 1918	p.2
Terrorize Greeks in Asia Minor	March 15 1919	p.24
Turks Massacre Greeks	March 21 1919	p.3
Murders in Asia Minor	July 8 1919	p.6
Turks Parboiled 250,000	July 31 1919	p.2
Turks Slay 21 Boy Scouts	August 15 1919	p.10
Turks Murdering Greeks	September 23 1919	p.19
More Greeks Deported; Turkish Nationalists Now Expelling Them From Trebizond	January 4 1922	p.2
300 Greeks Massacred (Samsounta, Pontos)	February 1 1922	p.3
Senator King Urges Action Against Turks; Introduces Resolution to Stop Kemal Pasha’s Policy of Exterminating Christians	February 3 1922	p.2
Turks Hem In Greeks; Nationalist Minister Leads Expedition in Pontus Region	March 11 1922	p.19
Turks Burn 24 Greek Villages; Many People Perish In Flames (Pontos)	March 30 1922	p.1
[...] By Turks Has Been Renewed; American Says They Plan To Exterminate the Christians in Asia Minor; They Have Deported Major Yowell and Associate From Harpoot	May 6 1922	p.2
(Associated Press) Kemalist Agent Coming; Vice-President May Be Sent Here to Refute Charges of Atrocities	May 25 1922	p.21
(Associated Press) Britain Awaits Our Reply; Near East Inquiry is Held Up Pending Receipt-Atrocities Continue	June 2 1922	p.2
303,238 Massacred, Greek Minister Says	June 2 1922	p.3
Assails Kemal Pasha; Mass Meeting Here Charges Atrocities on Christians (Meeting presided over by Bishop William T. Manning of the Episcopal Church)	June 2 1922	p.17
America to Join European Powers in Turkish Inquiry[Secretary of State] Hughes Announces Acceptance of British Invitation to Investigate Atrocity Charges	June 4 1922	p.1, 18
Predicts Greatest Massacre in History; Dr. Ward Says Turks Will Be Restrained Only By Power’s Concerted Action	June 4 1922	Section 2 p.1
Murray, T. Turkish Barbarities (Letter to the Editor)	June 5 1922	p.12
Turks Draft Christians: Formed into Labor Brigades in Cilicia to Dig Trenches at Front	June 6 1922	p.21
(Associated Press) Quick Action Urged to get Atrocity Proof; Dr. Ward Fears Turks Will Remove Witnesses and Traces of Crimes	June 6 1922	p.21
Says 22,000 Greeks Died on the March; Ward Declares Only Quick Action By Washington Can Stop Turkish Massacres; Christian Girls For Harem; Turks Forbade American Orphanages to Shelter Those Who Were More Than 15	June 7 1922	p.3
(Associated Press) Dr. Ward Sees Balfour: Latter Agrees that Turkish Atrocities Inquiry Should Be Expedited	June 10 1922	p.3
Turks Massacre 15,000 More Greeks; Kemalist Troops Employed in Systematic Campaign of [...] and Starvation	June 14 1922	p.4
Atrocities Enquiry Limited to Past Year; British Won’t Try to Punish the Guilty in View of Washington’s Attitude	June 15 1922	p.40
(Associated Press) Massacres Up in Commons; Lloyd George Declines To Call Poincaré’s Attention to Turkish Outrages	June 16 1922	p.36
(Associated Press) France Exacts an Apology for Outrages by Kemalists	June 17 1922	p.1
Anatolia Deportee Here; Dr. Ruth Parmalee, Ousted by Kemalists, Says They Are All Corrupt	June 17 1922	p.5
(Associated Press) Kemal Pasha Puts His Veto On the Atrocities Inquiry	June 21 1922	p.1
Williams, T.W. War-Weary Greeks Now Expect Peace	June 25 1922	Section 2 p.5
Starve Christians; Lay It To Allah; Turks Driving Helpless Greeks Before Them To Death, Says Relief Official	June 25 1922	Section 2 p.5
Americans Quoted Against The Greeks	July 2 1922	p.3
(Associated Press) Delay Asia Minor Inquiry	July 6 1922	p.4
(Associated Press) Says Turks Killed Several Americans	July 8 1922	p.4
(Associated Press) Doubt Greek Aggression	July 11 1922	p.8
(Associated Press) Greeks Lose Ushak; Smyrna Menaced	September 5 1922	p.3
Morgenthau Calls for Check on Turks; Says Their Devilish Scheme for Annihilation of Other Races Must Not Go On	September 5 1922	p.3
(Associated Press) Europeans Begin To Leave Smyrna	September 7 1922	p.4
Reports the Turks [...] Americans; Murders Every Day, Says S.R. Harlow, With Our Government Inactive; Wiping Out Our Missions; Deliberate Campaign is Making Rapid Progress, Says Professor of College in Smyrna	September 7 1922	p.4
Armistice Sought by Greeks as Turks Press Near Smyrna	September 8 1922	pp.1, 3
(Associated Press) Greeks Hand Over Smyrna To Allies; Looting Reported	September 9 1922	pp.1, 3
Greeks Surrender Smyrna to Turks After Shell Fire	September 10 1922	pp.1, 18
Morgenthau Warns France; Hints At Loss of American Sympathy Due to Her Backing of Turks	September 10 1922	p.18
([...]. Press) Greeks Returning Mutinous in Defeat; Cheer Venizelos; Hints of Massacre; Constantinople Celebrates With Riots	September 11 1922	pp.1, 3
James, E.L. Kemal Won’t Insure Against Massacres; His Message Disquiets League Officials, Who Fear Turks Have Begun The Slaughter	September 11 1922	p.3
Russia Demands Straits Go To Turks; Cannon Calls For Force, if Necessary, to Avert More Massacres (Bishop Cannon, Chairman, Southern Methodist Advisory Committee of the American Near East Relief	September 14 1922	pp.1, 3
Smyrna Burning; 14 Americans Missing; 1,000 Massacred As Turks Fire City; Kemal Threatens March on Capital	September 15 1922	pp.1-2
(Associated Press) Bodies in Mudania Harbor; Americans Report Appalling Situation in Refugees’ Stampede	September 15 1922	p.2
(Associated Press) Britain Prepares to Fight for Straits; Calls on Dominions to Send Troops; Smyrna Wiped Out, Killings Continue	September 17 1922	pp.1-2
Who Equipped Kemal? The Soviet, One Report	September 17 1922	p.2
Prentiss, M.G. Eyewitness Story of Smyrna’s Horror; 200,000 Victims of Turks and Flames; Kemal Demands Greeks Quit Thrace	September 18 1922	pp.1-2
Turks Whet Sabres to Terrify Smyrna	September 21 1922	p.3
Turk Atrocities Told By British	September 21 1922	p.3
‘Nationalist Pact’ Key To Turks’ Policy	October 1 1922	p.3
The Two Kemals. The Polished Aristocrat of European Circles in Contrast With the Ruthless Commander of Fanatical Turks	October 1 1922	Section 8: Special Features p.3
Mahdesian, Arshag Numbers Massacred (Letter to the Editor)	November 5 1922	Section IX p.8
James, E.L. Turks Proclaim Banishment Edict to 1,000,000 Greeks; New Light on Turkish Massacres; Dr. Nansen Reads His Report; A Million Greeks Wiped Out	December 2 1922	pp.1, 3

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