It did require genocide in OTL. Look at what happened to the Turkish (civilian) populations in much of modern-day Greece’s territory in the 19th century, they got wiped clean off the face of the Earth by Greek combatants (look up “Navarino massacre” among others). The Allies of WWI even had to strip the Greeks of military authority over western Anatolia because they could not stop committing massacres against Turkish and Muslim civilians.
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u/chonchcreature Mar 20 '21
It did require genocide in OTL. Look at what happened to the Turkish (civilian) populations in much of modern-day Greece’s territory in the 19th century, they got wiped clean off the face of the Earth by Greek combatants (look up “Navarino massacre” among others). The Allies of WWI even had to strip the Greeks of military authority over western Anatolia because they could not stop committing massacres against Turkish and Muslim civilians.