The Pontian Genocide: Mass grave discovered in Turkey

During World War I and its aftermath (1914-1923), the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire instigated a violent campaign against the Greek population of Pontus and other regions of the Empire inhabited by Greeks. The campaign included massacres, forced deportations involving death marches, and summary expulsions. According to various sources, the death toll in Pontus ranged from 300,000 to 360,000; the death toll for Ottoman Greeks as a whole was higher. Some of the survivors and expelled took refuge in the neighbouring Russian Empire. Most of the Pontic Greeks who remained in Pontus after the end of the 1919-22 Greco-Turkish War were later deported to Greece under the terms of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923.

The government of Turkey, the successor state to the Ottoman Empire,[2] maintains that the large-scale campaign was triggered by the perception that the Greek population was sympathetic to the enemies of the Ottoman state and a potential fifth column. 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. Some other organisations have also passed resolutions recognising the campaign as a genocide, as have the parliaments of Greece and Cyprus.

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[TheKnifer93]

turks will pay for this one day

[Xeveos]

Dirty Mongolianturks no Pride they killed so many people the genocide to the Armenians to the Greek Pontians

This are not humans the Mongols are dirty animals!!!

And they wanna join E.U?!!!

Back to their Mother Mongolia of Dirty Animals!!!

[123Godfreak]

I'm Pontian Greek and Constantinople is GREEK, What did Palaiologos die for? us!

[ShazamVanBane]

Muslims who worship Mohammed know it is their duty to rape and slaughter babies, hence why they will even blow up their own babies and let them get shot to death in the desert.

[ShazamVanBane]

@TheDeepbluedive Speak English correctly, you're speech was nonsensical.

[TheDeepbluedive]

@smyrnis57 when the Nazis coursed in your papa. Did the Turks swearing?

Do not forget the two nations to each other is always in need of...

... liberation of the Nazis in 1934 despite the ferry to Greece with great hunger timely supplies brought...

Greece to Turkey earthquake of August 17, 1999, 8​January 2006 earthquake in greece turkey and have helped to Greece......

pls you read history...

[iSlash96]

@04Eleskirt04 uhmm... im pontian greek tho.. suckahhH!!!

its a fact dumbass, dont talk about things you dont know :D

[iSlash96]

@04Eleskirt04 you dont even have the right to talk about Istanbul, you dont even have a country.

[polygamous1]

@nikos20gr Bravo well said its what i also believed to blame all turks for the sins of the few is like blaming all germans for the crimes of the nazis or all cytpriots for the crimes of facist samson every country did attrocities am greek too but to pick just on the turks its wrong just look at what is going on in iraq now gaza Libya yes the ottoman turks allowed all their subjects to keep their own religion launguage culture Unlike what western "civilised" powers did to africans good bad in ALL

[player5319]

@smyrnis57 fuck you and your madafucking mama you and your hole generation can suck my dick and go to hell you son of a bitch

[maviprens28]

LOng liVE TOPAL OSMAN AĞA!