A fact from Constantinople massacre of 1821 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 March 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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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?
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:
[1] Furthermore, atrocities against Muslim residents in Jassy and Galati, in the early days of the occupation of Moldavia, promised reprisals from Ottoman.....
The Revolution of 1821 was not an isolated incident. Following the failled Greek revolution in 1770, the Greeks of Peloponnese suffered almost ten years of massacres, looting and devastation (1770-1779) by the muslim Albanians (also called "Turks" at that time). See List of massacres in Greece. Theodoros Kolokotronis, who conquered Tripolitsa in 1821, was a child then and had lost several of his family members during that period. His younger sister, had been sold to Albania. Many years later Kolokotronis visited his sister in Albania as a member of a British mission. She was the wife of a mullah. Brother and sister could only greet each-other in tears, as Kol. could not speak Albanian and his sister could no more speak Greek (she had become a "Turk").
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