İzmit massacres

Greek genocide
Greek genocide
Background
	Young Turk Revolution, Ottoman Greeks, Pontic Greeks, Ottoman Empire
The genocide
	Labour Battalions, Death march, Pontic Greek genocide, Phocaea massacre, Evacuation of Ayvalik, İzmit massacres, 1914 Greek deportations, Samsun deportations, Amasya trials, Burning of Smyrna
Foreign aid and relief
	Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor, American Committee for Relief in the Near East
Responsible parties
	Young Turks or Committee of Union and Progress; Three Pashas: Talat, Enver, Djemal; Bahaeddin Şakir, Teskilati Mahsusa or Special Organization, Nureddin Pasha, Topal Osman, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
See also
	Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), Greeks in Turkey, Population Exchange, Greek refugees, Armenian genocide, Assyrian genocide, Diyarbekir genocide, Istanbul trials of 1919–1920, Malta Tribunals

İzmit massacres
Part of the Greek genocide
	Town map with significant locations.
Date	March 1920 – June 1921
Location	İzmit district, Ottoman Empire
Type	Ethnic cleansing, genocidal massacre, mass murder
Motive	Anti-Greek sentiment, Turkification, Turkish nationalism
Participants	(mainly) Turkish nationalist Army and irregulars, on a minor scale: native Greeks, Hellenic Army (insubordinate role), Circassian mercenaries
Deaths	12,000 by the Turkish Army (+ 2,500 missing); ~ 300 by the Greek Army

The İzmit massacres were atrocities committed in the region of İzmit, Turkey, during the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) which took place during the Greek genocide. An Inter-Allied Commission of Enquiry that investigated the incidents submitted a report on 1 June 1921 about the events.