Genocide Denial: Turkey Rejects Extermination of Pontic Greeks

Pontic Greeks marked the genocide connected Tuesday with galore events passim Greece. Credit: AMNA

As Greece marked the Genocide of Pontic Greeks connected May 19, Turkey rejected the allegations that an extermination took place, accusing Greece of “weaponizing past for governmental purposes.”

Greek President Konstantinos Tasoulas called for the designation of the Pontic Greek Genocide by the planetary community. “We grant the representation of the victims of the Pontian Genocide—a transgression against humanity committed nether the Ottoman Empire that near an indelible people connected Hellenism and our humanities consciousness,” adding that, “This time serves arsenic a reminder of our work to support humanities information and to enactment tirelessly for the planetary designation of the Genocide, arsenic an enactment of justness and motivation restoration.”

The Greek Parliament honored the time by lighting up the facade of its gathering connected Monday evening. Projected connected the facade of the Parliament was a logo with the archetypal ‘G’ of the Genocide.

No forgetting and nary soundlessness tin screen the execution of 353,000 Greeks of Pontus during the years 1916 to 1923, the Parliament said successful its statement, adding a operation by the Panpontian Federation of Greece, “If we forget, we volition perish.”

Turkey says “the alleged” Pontic Greek Genocide is based connected “imaginary claims”

In a highly provocative tone, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted to the commemorations successful Greece for the Pontian Genocide. Ankara accused Athens of weaponizing humanities events for governmental summation and attributed “atrocities” to the Greek service during the Asia Minor Campaign.

Specifically, the Turkish Foreign Ministry’s connection noted: “The Greek authorities indispensable halt weaponizing past for governmental purposes. They should callback not lone the massacres against Turks and different taste groups that began with the Tripoli Massacre successful 1821, but besides the atrocities committed against Turks and different groups successful Western Anatolia pursuing the landing successful Smyrna connected May 15, 1919.

“Instead of distorting humanities facts and fueling past animosities, we telephone connected Greece to follow an cognition that contributes to the improvement of bilateral relations successful a tone of bid and cooperation.”