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:Well, I'm only speculating, but I imagine restraining them in some way. [[User:Jayjg|Jayjg]] 05:04, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Delirium, there is no agreement on the meaning of genocide. If one believes that the Anatolian Greeks represented a distinct culture which differed from the dominant one in today's Greece, then the "population transfer" was absolutely genocide. The Anatolian Greek culture was extinguished; it no longer exists, as a direct result of the policy of the Turkish state. What is left is Greeks, in the Hellenic Republic and in the diaspora, with "''-oglou''" names. (FWIW, my familily is not Anatolian but Boeotian....)
If you believe that there is a Palestinian nation, then causing that nation to cease to exist, whether by massacre or by "population transfer", can be understood as genocide.
The problem is that ''genocide'' is normally taken to mean "a moral crime of the same order as the Holocaust", rather than used in its literal senses, and that is where politics and extreme passions get involved... —[[User:Tkinias|Tkinias]] 07:35, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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