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The first mass deportation and genocide perpetrated by the Young Turks is that of Constantinople’s dogs. In 1910, about 80,000 dogs were deported to a desert island, Sivriada (Oxia in Greek), in the Princes’ archipelago. They devoured each other to survive and were left to die there. It prefigures another mass deportation and genocide perpetrated by the Young Turks, that of the Christians, as well as the Holocaust.
I have just read a very interesting book on that topic, La grande déportation des chiens (The Mass Deportation of Dogs), by Nicolas Saudray.
The dogs left on Oxia island:
It’s really like in Wes Anderson’s stop motion movie Dog Island, which I enjoyed a lot:
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