Turkish nation-building exterminated or expelled millions of Christians

Evidence

This model of religiously determined nationhood was adopted not only by Orthodox Christians, but also by the Muslim Turks. The establishment of a Turkish nation-state in the 1910s and 1920s involved the extermination or expulsion of literally millions of Christians. A million Armenians were murdered in the Armenian Genocide of 1915, amounting to 50% of the pre-war Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire, while another half million were deported but survived, according to the estimate of Donald Bloxham. The remaining Christian population of Anatolia, above all Greek, was mostly exterminated or expelled during the 1920s Turkish War of Independence and the subsequent population exchanges. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1046

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader thesis of the book that antisemitism and Islamophobia both derive from religiously determined nationhood models.