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[kimon07]

May 19th of each year, is devoted to the memory of the genocide of the Greeks of Pontos committed by the "Young Turks" of Mustafa Kemal (not the Ottoman Authorities).

"Its goal was to achieve the Turkification of the Empire by eliminating ethnic Christian minorities such as the Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontian Greeks"
(Note: Any resemblance to North Cyprus??)


INTERNATIONAL ΑSSOCIATION OF GENOCIDE SCHOLARS OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZES ASSYRIAN, GREEK GENOCIDES

http://pontosworld.com/index.php?option ... &Itemid=87
http://pontosworld.com/index.php?option ... &Itemid=87
In a groundbreaking move, the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) has voted overwhelmingly to recognize the genocides inflicted on Assyrian and Greek populations of the Ottoman Empire between 1914 and 1923. The resolution passed with the support of fully 83 percent of IAGS members who voted.

FULL TEXT OF THE IAGS RESOLUTION:

WHEREAS the denial of genocide is widely recognized as the final stage of genocide, enshrining impunity for the perpetrators of genocide, and demonstrably paving the way for future genocides;
WHEREAS the Ottoman genocide against minority populations during and following the First World War is usually depicted as a genocide against Armenians alone, with little recognition of the qualitatively similar genocides against other Christian minorities of the Ottoman Empire;
BE IT RESOLVED that it is the conviction of the International Association of Genocide Scholars that the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide against Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Association calls upon the government of Turkey to acknowledge the genocides against these populations, to issue a formal apology, and to take prompt and meaningful steps toward restitution.

GENOCIDE TEXT
http://www.genocidetext.net/iags_resolu ... tation.htm


A Brief History of the Pontian Greek Genocide (1914- 1923)

http://www.stbasiltroy.org/pontos/pontoshistory.pdf

“The Pontian Greek Genocide
In 1908, the Young Turks (Turkish nationalists) gained control of the government by revolting against Sultan Hamid. After the Ottoman Empire's defeat in the Balkan Wars of 1912— 1913, the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), an ultra- nationalist group of Young Turks, took control of the government. Its goal was to achieve the Turkification of the Empire by eliminating ethnic Christian minorities such as the Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontian Greeks”

Greek genocide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Greek genocide also known as the Pontic genocide, was the systematic killing of the Greek population of the Ottoman Empire during World War I and its aftermath (1914–1923). It was instigated by the government of the Ottoman Empire against the Greek population of the Empire and it included massacres, forced deportations involving death marches, summary expulsions, arbitrary executions, and destruction of Christian Orthodox cultural, historical and religious monuments. According to various sources, several hundred thousand Ottoman Greeks died during this period.[1] Other sources put the number at around 2 million. [2] [3]Some of the survivors and refugees, especially those in Eastern provinces, took refuge in the neighbouring Russian Empire. After the end of the 1919–22 Greco-Turkish War, most of the Greeks remaining in the Ottoman Empire were transferred to Greece under the terms of the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey. Other ethnic groups were similarly attacked by the Ottoman Empire during this period, including Assyrians and Armenians, and some scholars consider those events to be part of the same policy of extermination.[4][5][6]
Turkey, the successor state to the Ottoman Empire,[7] maintains that the large-scale campaign was triggered by the perception that the Greek population was sympathetic to the enemies of the Ottoman state. The Allies of World War I took a different view, condemning the Ottoman government-sponsored massacres as crimes against humanity. More recently, the International Association of Genocide Scholars passed a resolution in 2007 affirming that the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities of the Empire, including the Greeks, was genocide.[8] Some other organisations have also passed resolutions recognising the campaign as a genocide, as have the parliaments of Greece, Cyprus and Sweden.

[kimon07]

Greek Genocide commemorated in Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in Armenia

May 19, 2012 | 18:10

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YEREVAN. – May 19 marks the day of the Greek Genocide, when over 350,000 Greeks were annihilated in the Ottoman Empire in 1916-1923.
Armenian Parliament deputy Speaker Edward Sharmazanov along with the Acting Greek Ambassador to Armenia Vasiliki Dikopoulo, head of the Greek NGOs in Armenia Arkadi Khitarov as well as Greek community and spiritual representatives visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex and honored the memory of the Greek.
Armenian Parliament made a statement on April 24 claiming that Turkey must recognize not only the Armenian but also Greek, Assyrian and other national minorities’ genocides. Only by condemning and reconciling its own history Turkey can prove it is bearer of European civilization.
http://news.am/eng/news/106173.html

[kimon07]

Greek Genocide 1914-23
Asia Minor Thrace Pontus Constantinople Smyrna
Genocide Map
Genocide Chronology
Links

During the years 1914-1923, whilst the attention of the international community focused on the turmoil and aftermath of the First World War, the indigenous Greek minority of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey's predecessor, was subjected to a centrally-organized, premeditated and systematic policy of annihilation. This genocide, orchestrated to ensure an irreversible end to the collective existence of Turkey's Greek population, was perpetrated by two consecutive governments; the Committee for Union and Progress, better known as the Young Turks, and the nationalist Kemalists led by Mustafa Kemal "Atatürk". A lethal combination of internal deportations involving death marches and massacres conducted throughout Ottoman Turkey resulted in the death of one million Ottoman Greeks.

Feature Stories:

Near East Relief on Ottoman Greeks

This article is the official account of the Near East Relief organization on the Greeks and their genocide: "The story of Armenian suffering in Turkey is paralleled, with certain modifications by the experiences of the Greeks, of whom there were 5,000,000 under Turkish domination at the beginning of the war." ... Read More
1,500,000 Greek Christians Massacred or Deported by Turks
Dr. William C. King's article titled "1,500,000 Greek Christians Massacred or Deported by Turks" and published in King's Complete History of the World War (1922) covers the genocidal experiences of Ottoman Greeks up to 1918. ... Read More

Perpetrators of the Ottoman Greek Genocide

This page details some of the key architects and arch-perpetrators of the Ottoman Greek Genocide from the Committee for Union and Progress (CUP) and the Kemalist periods. After the Great War, many of these men were tried and found guilty by Turkish Court Martial in Constantinople. ... Read More

Massacre of the Greeks in Turkey

This article, titled "Massacre of the Greeks in Turkey: Story of the Tragic Fate of Hundreds of Thousands of Christian Noncombatants in the Levant", was written by the special correspondent of The London Morning Post stationed in Constantinople on 5 December 1918. ... Read More

Ambassador Morgenthau's Story

Henry Morgenthau (1856-1946) was United States ambassador to the Ottoman Empire between 1913 and 1916. He witnessed the Ottoman entry into World War I and the genocide of the Empire's Armenian, Aramaean/Assyrian and Greek population. "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story" was published ... Read More

Treaty of Sevres

The Treaty of Sèvres was the peace treaty that the Allies and the Ottoman Empire signed on 10 August 1920 in Sèvres, France. Articles of the treaty relevant to the Greek Genocide are presented here ... Read More


Mass Grave Discovered in Samsun, Turkey

In March 2008 a mass grave of Greeks was discovered in Yazılar, a village in Samsun’s Tekkeköy district, northern Anatolia. The discovery was made during the reconstruction of a primary school wall which had recently collapsed as a result of a land slide. It was then that residents of Yazılar discovered human remains; at first a number of jaw, spine, arm and leg bones but soon after some five or six human skeletons were discovered in one grave alone arousing suspicion that it was in fact a mass burial site. ... Read More

Nikos Mastoropoulos

Nikos Mastoropoulos, a painter of Pontic Greek descent, was born and raised in Moscow but died at the age of 55 in 2003. Mastoropoulos was greatly influenced by the tragic plight of the Greeks of Anatolia and Thrace and produced a selection of paintings on the Greek Genocide which magnificently capture the despair and torment experienced by the victims of the Genocide ... Read More


http://www.greek-genocide.org/index1.html

[kimon07]

The Ultimate admition.

Mustafa Kemal: 1926 Los Angeles Examiner Quote

In an interview with Swiss journalist Emile Hilderbrand, published on Sunday August 1st 1926 in the Los Angeles Examiner under the title "Kemal Promises More Hangings of Political Antagonists in Turkey", Mustafa Kemal states:

These left-overs from the former Young Turkey Party, who should have been made to account for the lives of millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.

Original Excerpt :

http://www.greek-genocide.org/ataturk_quote_lae.html

[kimon07]

TURKEY CONSIDERS "PONTIAN GENOCIDE DAY" AS DIVERTING FACTS
28 May 2010 16:48 (Last updated 28 May 2010 16:48)
ANKARA - Turkey considered on Friday the so-called "Pontian genocide commemoration day" activities as diverting historical facts.
The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement which said the Greek parliament adopted a law on February 24, 1994, and held "Pontian genocide commemoration day" activities last week.
"The activities were just a deviation from historical facts," the ministry statement said.
The statement said such activities aiming to distort history were against the spirit of cooperation, Turkish and Greek political leaderships were trying to create in order to add a new momentum to bilateral relations.

http://www.aa.com.tr/en/news/36464--tur ... ting-facts

[Panicos UK]

The sooner the new Turkish constitution comes into effect, the better. You wait and see, 30,40,50 years from now we'll have Turkish presidents publicly apologising for Turkish acts of aggression - it's only a matter of time.

[kimon07]

The sooner the new Turkish constitution comes into effect, the better. You wait and see, 30,40,50 years from now we'll have Turkish presidents publicly apologising for Turkish acts of aggression - it's only a matter of time.

Don't be so rough to them. Mustafa Kemal has done so already. See my post of the 20th May above.

[GreekIslandGirl]

There's a chapter in Nikos Kazantzakis' memoirs (Report to Greco), which I read a while back, where he describes being sent by the Greek government, along with some others making a rescue team, to the Pontus to help the fleeing families.

[kimon07]

There's a chapter in Nikos Kazantzakis' memoirs (Report to Greco), which I read a while back, where he describes being sent by the Greek government, along with some others making a rescue team, to the Pontus to help the fleeing families.

Never read that book.

[B25]

Kimon, respect man.