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Casualties

This article was nicely done. I believe the amount of casualties should be added to assess to scope of the massacres. Unfortunately, I found a few unreliable sources. They numbered the casualties in the "thousands" but there is no approximation as to how many. Have you guys found any?

As retaliation Turks massacred thousands of Greeks (Romeoi) in Constantinople, Adrianople, Smyrne, Kydonies and elsewhere in Micra Asia. Proudbolsahye (talk) 07:01, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Massacre of Turkish civilians in Galati and Iasi

This is not the primary subject of the article but since it is stated it should be stated correctly. According to a number of sources this massacre did take place, so calling it rumors is wrong.

Sources which mention the massacres:

  • Furthermore, atrocities against Muslim residents in Jassy and Galati, in the early days of the occupation of Moldavia, promised reprisals from Ottoman.....
  • the massacre of Turks at Galatz and Jassy..
  • the cruel and cowardly murders of Turkish merchants, in the towns of Galatz and Jassy..
  • Pushkin, who heard the news of the massacre of Galati and the violence in Jassy, was astonished by Ypsilantis' conduct as a general
  • One of the first acts of the Etairia in Moldavia had been the massacre of Turkish civilians in Ia§i and Galati (Galatz...

So doing this is wrong.DragonTiger23 (talk) 08:41, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

  1. History of the Balkans, Barbara Jelavich, page 212, 1983
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