image courtesy of Andrew Simes
Series of turn of the century photos of Foça showing archaeological excavations at the time in this village clearly built over classical ruins - photographer Felix Sartiux.
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
Felix Sartiaux (1876-1944) was a French archaeologist who excavated Old Phokea between 1912-13 and again in May/June 1914, when he witnessed and photographed the uprooting of the Greeks of Phokea, one of the cruelest of many such incidents in the Asia Minor coast during that period. Some of the last photographs in the series are from this event, clearly showing burned buildings, Turkish soldiers (one with an umbrella) and Phokea inhabitants trying to flee.
Sartiaux returned to Phokea in 1920 to continue the excavations, but he couldn’t complete them before he left for good due to the events of 1922.
Source: Smyrnaika Meletimata, Philippos Phalbos 1980.