Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor with American diplomatic institutions in Athens and Thessaloniki to aid refugees arriving from Turkey. Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor The Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor (1917–1921) was a relief organization established during World War I in response to the genocide of Greeks in the Ottoman Empire. The committee was also known as simply the "Greek Relief Committee". The GRC worked through a network of foreign consuls, missionaries and relief workers located at various points in the Ottoman Empire. In doing so, its working methods were similar to those of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian
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