Turkey says ‘Greece exploiting history for political gain’

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The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a strongly worded statement condemning Greece for what it described arsenic “exploiting past for governmental motives,” successful effect to commemorations and statements successful Greece marking the Genocide of the Greeks of Pontus.

Ankara’s statement refers to “allegations against our state that deficiency immoderate ineligible foundation” and “distortion,” while urging Greek authorities to stop utilizing humanities events for governmental purposes and “acknowledge the savage crimes committed against Turks and different taste groups.” 

The statement contends that Greek authorities established successful 1994 connected the Pontus contented promotes unfounded claims, alleging that such narratives are taught successful Greek schools done acquisition directives.

Referencing the Greco-Turkish War, Ankara notes that Greece, having failed successful its 1919 run to recognize the “Great Idea,” “seeks to screen up some its decision and the sedate atrocities it committed by bringing up the baseless ‘Pontus’ allegations against our country.” It adds that the “war crimes and atrocities perpetrated by the Greek army” were documented successful Allied reports and the Treaty of Lausanne.

The statement concludes by urging “Greece to follow an attack that will foster the improvement of our bilateral relations connected the ground of bid and cooperation, alternatively than utilizing past to incite animosity.” 

Greece has declared May 19 arsenic a time of remembrance for the centrally organized persecution that led to some 350,000 estimated deaths of millennia-old Greek populations on modern Turkey’s Black Sea seashore and its mountainous hinterland betwixt 1914-23.