FREE MURAD AKINCILAR NOW!

February 7th, 2010

FREE MURAD AKINCILAR

Murad Akincilar, economist, union secretary of the Geneva Industry and Building Union (Syndicat industrie et bâtiment), activist for human rights and alternate member of the Supervisory Board of the Labour Market (Conseil de surveillance du marché de l’emploi ) in Switzerland was arrested in Istanbul at his home by plainclothes policemen, this Wednesday, September 30, 2009. His wife witnessed his arrest. No reason was given to his wife and attempts to make contact with the prison authorities were unsuccessful. His lawyer in Istanbul could not speak with his client and Murad Akincilar was not allowed to contact his family.

In view of the record of executions and torture of opponents and trade unionists which taints the history of modern Turkey, it is right to be worried about the fate of Murad Akincilar. The concern is even greater given that his wife is pregnant and the situation of our colleague could have tragic consequences on the health of the family.

We are fully convinced of the innocence and moral probity of Murad Akincilar and demand the immediate and unconditional release of Mr. Murad Akincilar. Meanwhile Murad should benefit from the most basic rights, namely the contact with his family and his lawyer, knowing the charges against him, have decent conditions of detention in accordance with international commitments of Turkey.

Send your messages of solidarity to:

Alessandro Pelizzari Secrétaire régional Unia Geneva Secretary General : alessandro.pelizzari@unia.ch
Beşir Atalay, Turkish Interior Minister : besir.atalay@icisleri.gov.tr
and the Turkish Chief Police: bphism@egm.gov.tr
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Gynenokratia. Greek Thracian history in New York

February 7th, 2010

Astoria’s Thracian Gynekokratia

Astoria’s Thracian Gynekokratia a Big Success

Astoria’s Thracian Gynekokratia a Big SuccessFor Immediate Release: February 5, 2010Contact: Nikolaos Taneris, President, Panthracian Union of America “Orpheus”, New York, Tel. (917) 699-9935

NEW YORK–Mr. Giovanni di Napoli provides a comprehensive report and pictures on the Thracian Gynekokratia organized by the Pan Thracian Union of America “Orpheus” in Astoria, New York. The report is available on the Magna GRECE journal, in the following link: http://magnagrece.blogspot.com/2010/02/astorias-thracian-gynekokratia.html

On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank all participants and supporters of the Thracian Gynekokratia, it was a big success.Respectfully yours,NIKOLAOS TANERIS, President,Pan Thracian Union of America “Orpheus”http://panthracian.blogspot.com/

Astoria’s Thracian Gynekokratia

Joyous celebrants dancing the night away.
Last Sunday I had the great honor to partake in the ancient Thracian celebration of Gynekokratia, or Women’s Day. Around 150 Participants from around the Tri-State area descended on The Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York’s Stathakion Center in Astoria, Queens, for the occasion.
Traditionally, on January 8th the married women of Thrace visited the local midwives and made them offerings of soap and vegetables in gratitude for their invaluable services. Out of deep respect and appreciation, the women ritually washed the midwives’ hands. In some villages the women would visit newborns and anoint them with oil and honey.

Also on this day, the traditional roles between men and women were reversed. Women would take care of the town’s affairs and gather in the cafés while the men folk tended the children and did the housework. Any man unlucky enough to be caught outside during the holiday by the celebrants would be ridiculed or beaten with brooms.
Today, this wondrous tradition is a celebration of motherhood and the strength and nobility of Women. The Thracian women still congregate and respectfully wash the hands of their community’s senior members and the men cook and cater to their wives and mothers.
At 7:00 PM the hall’s doors were opened and we men were finally allowed to join the celebration. It was more than a little amusing to watch the men stall and hesitate entering the hall. These days, instead of beatings, the first ten adult males to arrive are forced to wear an apron symbolizing the role reversals. As much as they wanted to join the party no man wished to don an apron. After some delay the impatient women stormed the hallway and forced their husbands to wear the garments. Everyone had a good laugh at their expense.

Mrs. Eleni Arvanitidis enjoying the fruits of her labor. Secretary, Stacy Seretoudis, and former President of the Pan-Thracians, Ioannis Fidanakis, pose for a picture.
Obviously the women were in good spirits and ready to party. After all, they had a two-hour head start on the ouzo and wine. They danced all night long, only occasionally stopping to eat, drink and mingle with their family and friends.
I couldn’t help but notice the similarity between the Hellenic and Southern Italian folk dances, clearly showing our common heritage and shared origins. The dancers twirled and pirouetted in time with the music, traditional folk songs about love and their ancestral homeland. (In hindsight I regret not taking the ladies up on their offer and joining them on the dance floor; it looked like a lot of fun.)
In modern times, Gynekokratia has been integrated with the traditional New Year’s Day celebration and Saint Basil’s Feast Day, when gifts are traditionally given. For someone like myself who was raised Roman Catholic and grew up celebrating Christmas on December 25th it was interesting to see Santa give children presents in January. However, I never get tired of seeing the joy in a young child’s face when they receive their present.
I especially enjoyed the ceremonial cutting of the Vasilopita, a traditional bread not unlike our own brioche. The giant loaves were ritually cut by Nikolaos Taneris, President of the Pan-Thracian Union of America, in honor of the Thracian people and homeland. The breads are sometimes dedicated to Christ, a king, St. Basil, the memory of a prominent member of the community, etc. Slices are distributed to guest according to age.
President Nikolaos Taneris cutting and serving the Vasilopita.
A gold coin, called a lira, is baked in the Vasilopita. Anyone fortunate enough to receive the slice with the hidden prize is said to win good luck for the entire year. Evidence supporting this belief was seen when this year’s winner of the coin also won the top prize during the raffles. Interestingly, the coin depicts King George V of Great Britain, recalling his reign in 1919.
The gold “Lira” and it’s lucky winner.
Celebrations such as this clearly show the positive characteristics of our ancestors, and through them help us understand ourselves. We are a culmination of our history. I would like to commend the Pan-Thracians for keeping this rich cultural tradition alive, and I was thankful to be a part of it.

Pontus

February 2nd, 2010

BBC NEWS Friday 29 January 2010

Music and politics colour Greek pilgrimage to Trebizond

The Ottoman empire was home to many nationalities and religions - a cultural mosaic that was splintered by nationalism and war in the 20th Century. But a new spirit of tolerance may be emerging in modern Turkey, albeit slowly and unsteadily, reports Thomas de Waal.
For almost 90 years, the monastery of Soumela, situated at eagle-height in a gorge in eastern Turkey, has been an echoing ruin.
Worship ended here in 1923 when modern Greece and Turkey exchanged their Christian and Muslim populations and the local Christian Greeks from this region left en masse.

Musicians lead a group of pilgrims up the path to the monastery
But in the last decade, Greek pilgrims, calling themselves tourists, have started coming back here on the old feast-day of the Virgin Mary.
Last August I was at the monastery, officially a state museum, as a Greek Orthodox service sounded out again outside its walls — but it lasted just 30 seconds.
A black-cassocked monk began to sing the liturgy in deep tones before a Turkish museum curator broke up the service. A fight threatened to break out. The gathering broke up in recriminations and grandstanding speeches.
Old homeland
One step forward, one step back. The story of the-service-that-wasn’t at Soumela is a suitably Byzantine tale that takes in Turks, Greeks and Russians and plenty of different factions amongst them.
The background to it is that the government of the moderately Islamic AK Party is challenging tenets of the modern secular Turkish state and reviving memories of the multi-ethnic Ottoman era.
The new foreign policy of “zero problems with neighbours” is building bridges with old enemies, including Armenians and Greeks and that has been welcome for curious Black Sea Greeks who want to revisit the old homeland which they call the Pontus.
Musicians have led the way. Both the Black Sea Turks and the Pontic Greeks play an instrument they call the kemenje or lyra and in English you might call a lyre.

Adem Erdem, a Turk, has performed and recorded in Pontic Greek
It is small, light and three-stringed, made of cherry-wood, played with a bow and held against the knee. Its visceral music sets the rhythm for the round dances that both Greeks and Turks seem to know instinctively.
Two musicians in particular, the Greek anthropologist and lyre-player Nikos Mikhailides and Adem Erdem, a local Turkish player, have blazed a trail.
The album they recorded together in the Pontic Greek dialect has become a smash hit with Pontic Greeks from Thessaloniki to Tashkent. Although not on sale in Turkey, it has been a hit too in Trabzon in thousands of pirate copies.
One of the secrets of this part of Turkey is that tens of thousands of local Muslims, whose ancestors were once Christian, still speak and understand this archaic version of the Greek language.
Festive frenzy
Trabzon is more famous to English ears as Trebizond, the city of Rose Macaulay’s novel The Towers of Trebizond.

Nowadays Macaulay’s magical city is a functional Turkish Black Sea port. But last August its past stirred into life again. The day before the feast-day of 15 August, half the valley seemed to be talking Greek.
At a Turkish wedding feast we watched a middle-aged blonde woman with a string of pearls round her neck step smoothly into the dance. It turned out she was a professor of law at Athens University. We were the strangers here, not her.
The next morning we ascended the valley to Soumela.
It was a heady Alpine summer’s day. From a distance it could be a Tibetan monastery, a yellowing beehive high above the gorge. Hundreds of people toiled up the path.
The atmosphere was both excited and tense, with watchful Turkish policemen at every corner. Outside the monastery gate, a Greek lyre-player with a fine set of pointed moustaches was whipping a crowd of dancers into a festive frenzy.
The beaming Sotiria Liliopoulos had come from Earlwood, New South Wales - her father, now aged 98, was born in Maçka and came here as a child. In an accent veering from Greek to Australian, Sotiria said, “This is the happiest day of my life.”
But politics was humming in the background.

Greeks stopped to venerate the icon carried by a Russian priest
A wealthy member of the Russian parliament of Greek descent named Ivan Savvidi, who is making a pitch to be the leader of the Pontic Greek community, had chartered a ferry to ship Russian Greeks here across the Black Sea.
The nationalist local authorities in Trabzon were nervous of his intentions. When Savvidi’s Russian party made it to the top of the path, they were an incongruous mix - there were attractive young women in yellow T-shirts and baseball caps with Byzantine eagles on them, and a bearded man dressed in white shirtsleeves and shades (a priest ordered to remove his cassock) carrying a large icon, which Greeks stopped to venerate and kiss.
Radicals
The politician himself waved to the crowd and persuaded a Greek priest to start a service.
The priest began to sing, but the Turkish museum curator had orders to stop any religious ceremony on her territory. She pushed out of her ticket booth into the crowd, shouting in Turkish, and tried to wrest a lighted candle out of Savvidi’s hands.

Ivan Savvidi, in the yellow tie, is making a pitch to be the leader of the Pontic Greek community
Greek and Turkish television cameras whirred. The divides between the Greeks came to the surface. Some of them, the radicals, started a provocative rendition of the Greek national anthem. Others shushed them.
There seemed to be only two winners here, the Turkish curator and the Russian MP, both of whom had played heroes to the cameras.
Standing on a wall, Savvidi told the Greek crowd that the Turks had offended civilisation and he would complain in Brussels.
He said that he had informed the Russian foreign ministry of his plans, but failed to mention if he had permission from the Turkish government.
As Savvidi spoke, other Greeks - ones who have spent years quietly building bridges with the locals - were drifting away, angry at the way the feast day was being taken from them.
At the bottom of the valley, my mood lifted again. The lyra-musicians were performing and a couple were dancing in extravagant rhythms. The crowd clapped and whooped.
Music is irrepressible and it draws people together, even when the politicians cannot manage it.
Tom de Waal presented Songs of Trebizond on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday, 31 January. You can listen to it on iPlayer. He is a specialist on the Caucasus with the Carnegie Endowment in Washington.
Photos by Eleftherios Kostans, staff photographer at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA.

Apo Torosyan

February 2nd, 2010

UPCOMING SPRING 2010 FILM AND LECTURE SERIES BY APO TOROSYAN

The Lecture Series February 22-23rd 2010 at Keene State College will be co-sponsored by the Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Awareness Club and they will be in charge of the event which is open to the public.
The president of the Club is Michelle Sigiel
msigiel@ksc.mailcuiser.com.

UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS
Location: Keene State College
229 Main St.
Keene, New Hampshire
03435
Contact Person: Professor Stephanie Wolfe
Telephone: 603-358-2417
Website: www.keene.edu
E-mail: swolfe1@keene.edu

Date: Feb 22 2010
Time: 12 Noon / Room : Cohen Center, Mason Library Room 121
Class : Comparative Genocide
Film and Lecture by Apo Torosyan
Followed by Q&A

Date: Feb 22nd 2010
Time: 4 p.m. / Room : Morrison, Room 203
Class : Genocide
Film and Lecture by Apo Torosyan
Followed by Q&A

Date: Feb 22nd 2010
Time: 7. p.m. / Room : Young Student Center, Mountain View Room
Film The Morgenthau Story and Lecture by Apo Torosyan
Followed by Q&A
Co-sponsored by the Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Awareness Club and they will be in charge of the event
which is open to the public.
The president of the Club is Michelle Sigiel
msigiel@ksc.mailcuiser.com.

Date: Feb 23rd 2010
Time: 8 a.m. / Room : Science Center, Room 101
Class : “The Holocaust”
Taught by Dr. Paul Vincent - pvincent@keene.edu
Film and Lecture by Apo Torosyan
Followed by Q&A

OHIO PRESENTATION
Date: March 11th 2010
Time : 7p.m. Thursday .
Location : Saint John the Forerunner Social Hall
4955 Glenwood Avenue.
Boardman Ohio 44512
Sponsored by AHEPA Lincoln 89
For tickets, contact the office at 330-788-5257,
Presvytera Vasiliki at 330-757-2998, or Jim Denney Esq. at 330-545-4250.
For more unscheduled events, please reach Jim Denney Esq. 330-545-4250

In all these events Apo’s films would be available for sale.

THE MORGENTHAU STORY FILM

The Morgenthau Story tells the story of Ambassador Henry Morgenthau’s commitment to helping humanity. From 1913 to 1916, he served as U.S. Ambassador in Constantinople, and with the beginning of the Armenian Genocide in the spring of 1915 he appealed without success to the Ottoman leaders to stop the killings. In 1923, during the aftermath of the genocide and expulsion of Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians, he helped save thousands of lives by successfully leading the Refugee Relief Committee in Greece. Filmmaker Apo Torosyan illustrates the story of Henry Morgenthau Sr. by interviewing three of his descendants: grandsons Henry Morgenthau III and Robert M. Morgenthau, D.A. and great-granddaughter Dr. Pamela Steiner.

By Chris Bergeron/DAILY NEWS STAFF

FRAMINGHAM 03/29/09 — Descended from survivors of the Armenian genocide, filmmaker
Apo Torosyan hopes his art transforms prejudice and hate into tolerance and
compassion.

Growing up in Turkey, he learned his father’s parents had both starved to
death after the genocidal massacres of 1915. As a teenager in Istanbul, he
saw mobs hang Christian priests and rape Armenian women while his pregnant
sister cowered in their apartment preparing to kill herself if necessary.

Apo Torosyan ,the son of a Greek mother and Armenian father, Torosyan earned his
bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts in the
1968.

He has exhibited his rich, moody paintings in more than 100 solo and 200 group
shows in Europe and North America. His paintings are in the permanent
collections of several museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in
Bordeaux, France, the Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown,
Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., and the Florida Holocaust
Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Now 67, Torosyan has made seven documentaries, including four dealing with
aspects of the genocide and three others he describes as philosophic
“meditations.”

Since immigrating to the United States in 1968, he fears he can’t return to
Turkey because he expressed ( 2003 ) his opinion about the
Armenian genocide, which puts him in danger of imprisonment.

Torosyan’s documentary incorporates interviews with the three descendants of
Henry Morgenthau Sr., ambassador to Constantinople from 1913 to 1916, and
archival footage about Turkish oppression of the Armenian minority.

He credits Morgenthau for trying to alert the world to the Ottoman massacres
of Armenians and other Christians and later, as chairman of the Greek
Resettlement Commission, saving thousands after the 1922 Smyrna massacre.

While often regarded as the 20th century’s first holocaust, Torosyan fears
Westerners know little about the Ottoman Empire’s murderous policies against
Christians.

He said in April 1915, civilian and military authorities of the then-Ottoman
Empire now present day Turkey launched attacks, massacres and forced marches
to drive Armenians, as well as Greeks and Syrians, off their lands and into
exile. While exact figures remain in dispute, Torosyan said it’s “generally
accepted” that between 1915 and 1923 1.5 million Armenians died and another
2 million, representing nearly half the group’s population, were driven from
the country.

Rather than “play the blame game,” Torosyan said his films present history
objectively so future generations can recognize the symptoms of ethic,
religious and racial prejudice before they take effect. “I believe history
should be known so we don’t forget the past,” he said. “I’m trying to reach
out to youth in high school and colleges. They should know what happened.”

While the Republic of Turkey, which succeeded the Ottoman Empire, refuses to
describe the deaths and forced relocations as genocide, Torosyan insisted he
“holds no prejudice toward Turkish people today.”

Whether painting or making films, he said his art is intimately connected to
his personal history.

“What else is mine? My roots, my family history? Starving family members
dying during the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian Genocide, including my
grandparents,” he said. “…I started making my films, which are not all
related to human rights, but to life itself. My documentaries have been
shown in places I’ve never been to and seen by thousands of people I’ve
never met. And through the Internet, I have met a lot of new friends with
the same message: Hope not Hate.”

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Below filmmaker Apo Torosyan ( left ) and Henry Morgenthau III ( Grand Son of the Ambassador Morgenthau) 2007

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Genocide

November 2nd, 2009

Main Swedish Party Recognizes Turkish Genocide of Assyrians
Stockholm (AINA) — Sweden’s largest political party took a decision on Thursday during its annual convention to acknowledge the genocide of Assyrians, Greeks and Armenians during World War one. The genocide, called Seyfo in Assyrian, occurred between the years 1914-1918.

“I was very moved when the decision was taken,” said Yilmaz Kerimo, who is an Assyrian and a prominent member of the Social democratic party. “It is a positive standpoint and a great step forward. The party will now work for the recognition of the genocide within Sweden, in the European Union and the United Nations.”

The recognition by the Social Democrats has raised hopes in the Assyrian community in Sweden of recognition in the Swedish parliament as well. The issue will be voted on in the parliament during spring 2010.

Sweden’s left party, Vänsterpartiet, and the green party, Miljöpartiet, both recognized the genocide more than a year ago.

The work to have the genocide recognized has been long for the Assyrians of Sweden. The Assyrian Federation of Sweden welcomed the decision of the Social democrats on Thursday, saying “It’s the result of years of lobbying, both by Assyrians and non-Assyrians,” said Ilan de Basso, chairman of the Federation. “We have learnt to never give up. The ultimate goal is to have recognition from Turkey itself.”

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Hellenic Genocide

October 29th, 2009

Theofanis Malkidis: Dr. der Sozialwissenschaften,
Mitglied der internationalen Vereinigung Wissenschaftler zur Erforschung von Genozid www.malkidis.info

Der Genozid ist ein Menschenverbrechen, dessen Verurteilung universell sein sollte. Zusätzlich dürfen, unabhängig vom Zeitabstand, auf keinen Fall weder das Mass des Verbrechens noch das Verschulden verringert werden.
Das 20. Jahrhundert ist eine Zeit, in der der Genozid ununterbrochen und mit grosser Frequenz in Erscheinung trat. Die Genozide an den Armeniern, Assyriern, Griechen aus Pontos und Ioniern (Kleinasien), Thraziern, am jüdischen Volk sowie die Morde und Vertreibungen im ehemaligen Jugoslawien und in Ruanda, die allesamt von totalitären Regimes verübt worden waren, haben die Menschenrechte verletzt, Millionen Leben ausgelöscht und Jahrtausend alte Kulturen zerstört. Der Genozid an den Griechen aus Pontos, bei dem ein grosser Teil der Pontos-Bevölkerung ermordet wurde, stellt eines der grössten Verbrechen an der Menschlichkeit dar, welches aber noch immer nicht verurteilt worden ist. Die Überlebenden wurden teilweise verbannt. Ihre Deportation verlief unter unmenschlichen Bedingungen, die zu einer systematischen Ausrottung der Verschleppten führte. Tausende andere wurden verpflichtet zum Islam zu konvertieren und blieben damit für immer im Gebiet der heutigen Türkei, während sich die Überlebenden der Vertreibungen und des Massenmordes auf der ganzen Welt verstreuten.

Nach den Vorkommnissen der Jahre 1922-23, die zum unfreiwilligen Exodus aller Griechen aus Anatolien geführt haben, wurde dem Genozid, ebenso wie den Verbrechen an den Griechen aus Anatolien, keine Beachtung mehr geschenkt. Dafür gab es mehrere Gründe: zu einem das Abschliessen des Griechisch-Türkischen Paktes von 1930, zum anderen auch die politischen Interessen, die während des Kalten Kriegs verfolgt wurden. Die Wiederherstellung der Demokratie in Griechenland im Jahre 1974 nach sieben Jahren der militärischen Diktatur führte schliesslich zu mehr Interesse an der so genannten pontischen Frage. Jedoch wurden erst während des ersten und zweiten Weltkongresses (1985 und 1988) der Griechen aus Pontos neue Anstösse für die Aufstellung von wichtigen Rahmenbedingungen einer anstrebenden Politik gegeben. Dies geschah hauptsächlich durch die Kinder der pontischen Flüchtlinge von 1922. Somit blieb bis Mitte der Achtziger Jahre der pontische Genozid ein unbekanntes Thema auf der politischen Agenda. Der Hintergrund dafür ist vermutlich in den eventuell brisanten Folgen der Beziehung Griechenlands zur Türkei und zu supranationalen Organisationen zu suchen.
Die Auseinandersetzung mit der sog. pontischen Frage wurde durch die Ankunft tausender pontisch-stämmiger Griechen aus den Gebieten der ehemaligen Sowjetunion anfangs der neunziger Jahre erneut intensiviert. Der Druck auf die damalige griechische Gesellschaft wurde sehr stark. Schliesslich, nach Bemühungen, die fast 10 Jahre hielten, bestimmte das griechische Parlament am 24. Februar 1994 einen „Gedenktag für den Genozid des Griechen in Pontos“. Dieser Tag wurde auf den 19. Mai festgelegt.
(Am 19. Mai 1919 landete Mustafa Kemal Pascha mit dem Schiff ”Bandirma” in Samsun am Ufer des Schwarzen Meeres, um den Widerstand der Türken gegen ihre Besatzungsmächte zu organisieren.)

Im Vergleich jedoch zu den anderen Fällen (jüdischer Holocaust, armenischer Genozid, Massenmorde in Ex-Jugoslawien), wo sich die Aussenpolitik des jeweiligen Opfer-Staates um eine internationale Anerkennung der Gräueltaten bemüht, versuchten dies alle griechischen Regierungen bislang nicht. Somit setzen sich für die pontische Frage heutzutage nur pontische NGOs (Nicht-Regierungsoragnisationen), internationale Menschenrechtsorganisationen und sonstige demokratisch gesinnte Ausländer ein. Bislang ist der pontische Genozid vom Parlament der Republik Zypern sowie von mehreren Staaten, beziehungsweise Gemeinden und politisch engagierten Personen in den Vereinigten Staaten, anerkannt worden: - George E. Pataki Gouverneur, Parlament und Senat von New York, (Mai 2002 und Mai 2005). - James E. McGreevey Gouverneur und Parlament von New Jersey, (September 2002). - Edward G. Rendell Regler Gouverneur von Pennsylvania, (Mai 2004). - Alex A. Knopp Bürgermeister von Norwalk, Connecticut, (Mai 2004). - Janet Wehr Creighton Bürgermeister von Canton, Ohio, (Mai 2004). - Jane L. Campbell Bürgermeister von Cleveland, Ohio, (Mai 2005). - Bürgermeister von Columbia, South Carolina, (Mai 2005). - Charlie Crist Gouverneur von Florida (Mai 2005). - Gouverneur von Illinois (Mai 2005). - Mitt Romney Gouverneur von Massachusetts (Mai 2006). - Stadt von Chicago (September 2006). - Richard Mocchia Bürgermeister von Norwalk, (Mai 2007). - Mitglied des Kongresses Carolyn Manoney (Mai 2007). - Senator von New York George Onorato (Mai 2007). - Abgeordneter von New York Michael Giannaris (Mai 2007). - Senat von New Jersey auf Antrag der Senatoren M. Palaia, T. Corodemus und T. Smith, (September 2002). - Parlament und Senat von Columbia, South Carolina, (Januar 2003). - Gemeinderat der Stadt Cleveland, Ohio (Mai 2003). - Senat von Pennsylvania (Entscheidung Nr. 1988) auf Antrag des Senators Robert J. Thompson, (Mai 2004) - Staat Florida (Entscheidung Nr. 9161). - Staat Florida (Entscheidung Nr. 2742), (Mai 2005). - Generalstaatanwalt von Florida, (Mai 2005). - Staat New York (Entscheidung Nr. 1883) (Mai 2005). Zudem hat Carolyn Maloney am 18. Mai 2006 eine Rede im Bundesparlament der USA für die Pontische Frage gehalten.

In Kanada hat sich der Premierminister Jean Chrétien im Jahre 2001 schriftlich für die Annerkennung ausgesprochen, weiterhin ist ein entsprechendes Postulat vom Mitglied des Senats von Ontario Michael Parue (Mai 2002) eingereicht, während die Regierung von New South Wales den Genozid anerkannt hat. Ferner hat sich für die pontische Frage die Botschaft von Armenien in Athen sehr positiv geäussert. Zuletzt hat sich dieser Thematik der Ökonomie- und Sozialrat (ECOSOC) der UNO, sowie die Organisation für Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa (OSZE) gewidmet, und zwar nach Interventionen von Nicht-Regierungsorganisationen. Zudem hat am 6. Mai 2006 die Abgeordnete des Staates von Victoria in Australien Tzeni Mikakou die Frage der Anerkennung des Genozids an das Parlament gebracht. Am 1. Juni 2006 verlangte der Abgeordnete des schwedischen Parlaments, Tassos Stafilidis, vom schwedischen Aussenminister die Anerkennung des Genozids des Griechen von Pontos. Am 20. Juni 2006 folgte der Abgeordnete Steve Pound, der einen entsprechenden Vorstoss in das Parlament von Großbritannien brachte, während der Abgeordnete Hans Linde die Anerkennung vom schwedischen Parlament (13. Oktober 2006) verlangte.

Die pontische Frage wurde im Rahmen des Ausschusses für Europäische Angelegenheiten des Europäischen Parlaments vom 5. September 2006 diskutiert. Dies geschah durch das Einreichen des Berichts des holländischen Parlamentsmitgliedes Camiel Eurlings, der über seine Beobachtungen zum Fortschritt der Türkei auf dem Weg zur europäischen Integration darstellte. Im Artikel 56 des besagten Berichts wurde auf die Notwendigkeit hingewiesen, dass sich die Türkei mit ihrer Vergangenheit auseinandersetzen soll. Ferner soll die Türkei den erleichterten Zugang von Forschern in ihre historischen Archive gewährleisten, damit die Genozide an den Armeniern, Griechen von Pontos und Assyriern, die in den Jahren 1915-1923 erfolgten, untersuchen werden können. Am 27. September 2006 hat das Europa-Parlament den Bericht des Ausschusses für Europäische Angelegenheiten, der vom holländischen Parlamentarier erstellt worden ist, gutgeheissen.

Der Genozid der Griechen von Pontos ist eine Frage, die für mehrere Jahre im Schatten der Geschichte blieb. Es handelt sich um eine politische Frage. Ihre internationale Ausdehnung ist mit der Pflicht aller Institutionen der internationalen Gemeinschaft, der Regierungen und der internationalen Organisationen verbunden, den an den Griechen von Pontos verübten Genozid anzuerkennen, damit sie mindestens für den Schaden, den sie erlitten haben, moralisch entschädigt werden können.

Die Entstehung einer freieren, angemesseneren, gleichwertigeren und harmonischeren Welt ist das Ziel eines neuen Europas, das auf demokratische Werte basiert. Dieses Europa, aber auch der gesamte Planet, den wir neu gestalten wollen, kann sich nicht als ignorant und heuchlerisch präsentieren, wenn es ihre (seine) eigene Geschichte anbelangt. Eine gemeinsame Suche und Beleuchtung der Wahrheit wird sehr viele Völker vereinigen. Damit sich ein derartiges Verbrechen nicht wiederholt, sollten die Verschuldeten aufgedeckt sowie ihre Beweggründe der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert werden. Die öffentliche Meinung kann immer unvoreingenommen urteilen. Heutzutage, wo andere Völker Opfer von Genoziden seitens rassistischer Länder werden, sollte als erster Schritt die Anerkennung des an die Griechen aus Pontos verübten Verbrechens gemacht werden.

Darüber hinaus sollte der türkische Staat die Verantwortung für den an den Griechen von Pontos verübten Genozid übernehmen. Dabei sollte er keine Propaganda betreiben und als Grund für die Entlastung von den Vorwürfen die Diskontinuität des türkischen Staates angeben.

Der Grund dafür ist, dass sowohl die Bewegung Mustafa Kemals, der als Begründer des heutigen türkischen Staates gilt, als auch diejenige der Neutürken an das begangene Verbrechen eine entscheidende Mitschuld tragen.
Jedes Volk besitzt das Recht auf die offizielle Anerkennung der Verbrechen und Gräueltaten, die an seiner Bevölkerung verübt wurden. Je grösser die verübten Verbrechen und je länger diese verhüllt geblieben sind, desto grösser ist der Wunsch für eine solche offizielle Anerkennung. Die Anerkennung ist eine wichtige Methode zur Bekämpfung von neuen Genoziden. Zudem bestätigt die Anerkennung eines Genozids das Recht eines Volkes sein Bestehen fortzusetzen.

Die pontische Frage ist eine lebhafte und komplizierte Thematik, die aufgrund der Entwicklungen inner- und ausserhalb Europas an Aktualität gewinnt. In diesem Zusammenhang geht es beim pontischen Genozid um Demokratie, Menschenrechte, Freiheit, Würde, tatsächliche Freundschaft und Zusammenarbeit – es geht um einen Sieg für die geschichtliche Wahrheit.
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Greek minority in Albania

October 26th, 2009

Visit the website http://www.hellenes.com/NorthernEpirusBook.html with the book of Theofanis Malkidis under the tittle THE GREEK MINORITY IN ALBANIA in (3) Languages, Greek, English and Albania.

The book, edition of Panepirotic Federation of US, deal with a Historic retrospection of Northern Epirus along with all the Pacts and the Human Rights of the Northern Epirotes, as a recognized Minority by the International Community. It, also, includes all the activities of the Panepirotic Federation of America.

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El genocidio de Griegos

October 22nd, 2009

Presentación de Theofanis Malkidis

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1. Una acción debida de la deuda

La investigación del genocidio de Griegos de Pontos (el Mar Negro) del arreglo de los turcos jóvenes y de Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) constituyó un tabú de la pregunta para la ciencia histórica y política griega. El pacto Griego-Turco de la amistad 1930, de la integración simultánea de Grecia y de Turquía en la OTAN en 1952, pero también simultáneamente del acercamiento llamado de dos estados, estaciones constituidas de los puntos (y) para la pregunta de Pontian. Son estos parámetros “que el genocidio de Hellenism de Pontos no adquirió el compurgation que te fue impuesto adquiere”, como tensiona el escritor en su importación.

En un lado porque el clima político no permitió se investiga el crimen de asesinatos totales contra de Griegos, en el otro lado cuando esto se convirtió después de la iniciativa de científicos y del intelectual como deuda mínima contra la memoria colectiva, hizo frente a un ambiente muy hostil.

No obstante después de luchas y de esfuerzos de muchos años de los habitantes de Pont de la segunda generación y de asociaciones del interior y al exterior, del parlamento griego reconocido en 1994 el genocidio de los Griegos de Pontos, estableciéndolo el 19 de mayo como día de la memoria y del precio. La ley sobre el reconocimiento del crimen total era de un solo él estación en la más nueva historia griega, ese más precioso quizás él lo tenía ofrece el estado helénico a las víctimas de la liquidación de la patria histórica y a sus descendientes, los refugiados que alcanzaron a pobres en Grecia y sin embargo contribuidos en la vida griega del político, económica, social y cultural.

El reconocimiento del genocidio del parlamento de Griegos tenía muchos de componentes y de otras tanto prioridades. La protección del 19 de mayo como día de la memoria del genocidio de Griegos de Pontos, de la “acción del deber a la historia y de la acción de la responsabilidad opuesta en las más nuevas generaciones de Griegos”, su internationalisation en todos los niveles (reconocimiento de Turquía, la infracción de las derechas Pontians que vive en Turquía y particularmente en su lugar de la existencia en el Pontos), la instalación del natural de los refugiados de Pont de la Unión Soviética anterior en Grecia, la documentación del genocidio.
Por las razones que son sabidas y comprensibles como divulgamos más y estamos conectados con el extranjero de los intereses con la memoria y la amistad verdadera entre las poblaciones la decisión de la delegación nacional en la publicación del genocidio de los documentos de Griegos de Pontos, no fue materializado inmediatamente. Así pasaron 10 años enteros hasta que el parlamento griego publica el libro de profesor Konstantinos Fotiadis, que discutió los asesinatos de 353000 Griegos en el Pontos el intervalo 1916-1923.

El libro se separa en 13 capítulos que cubran la historia de Griegos de Pontos, la situación etnológica en la región, las reformas y el arreglo de los turcos jóvenes, que del otomano fue dado vuelta contra los Griegos (y el armenio), programa del arreglo de Mustafa Kemal para los crímenes en el Pontos. El libro incluye fuentes primarias, el resultado de la investigación del escritor en el gobierno y archivos poseídos de URSS, de Francia, de Alemania, de Gran Bretaña, de Austria, de Italia, de Vatican, sociedad de naciones y de Grecia anteriores, mientras que también mencionada es la bibliografía rica en griego y otras idiomas.

2.Thecrimen

El genocidio de los habitantes de Pont (1916 - 1923) con las 353.000 víctimas antedichas, constituye un genocidio grande el vigésimo siglo que el genocidio del término como fue formado luego el final de la segunda guerra mundial, significa que la exterminación metódica, total o el equipo parcial, nacional, racial o religioso y es un crimen primario, que no tiene interrelación con conflictos marciales.
¿El equipo nacional, racial o religioso de la aniquilación parcial o total levanta, por consiguiente al artículo de 1 convención especial, que ha votado la Asamblea General de la O.N.U en 1948 en el crimen del genocidio, que es diferente de los crímenes de la guerra, después? no sólo fuerza las reglas marciales, pero sí mismo constituye crimen en la humanidad, a condición de que se refiere en individuos concretos o la nación, pero se refiere entero a la humanidad “.
Así el genocidio constituye el crimen más pesado según la derecha internacional, para la cual en hecho no existe la prescripción. El que confía el genocidio no extermina a equipo para algo que lo hace e tú, pero para algo es decir, s el caso de Griegos de Pontos, porque él era Griegos y cristianos.

La fecha del 19 de mayo de 1919 la llegada de s Moustafa Kemal en el Samsounta, es el principio para el segundo y una fase más dura del genocidio. El terrorismo, los batallones de trabajo, los exilios, el obliteration de la dirección en el Amasia en 1921, las violaciones, los asesinatos de la masa, forzó a Griegos de Pontos abandonar sus hogares e irse después de cursos, en Grecia, en la URSS, Irán, Siria, y a otra parte (Australia, los E.E.U.U.) o como los medios de la autodefensa son acción emprendida de la resistencia contra el dibujo organizado de la exterminación. Él ha hecho en adelante hoy perceptible que t las víctimas del genocidio sería muy más, si no existió el movimiento del guerrilla. La conclusión del genocidio de Pontian constituye la liquidación violenta que sobrevive luego 1922 -1923.

3. La importancia de la publicación de genocidio

El reconocimiento del genocidio de los Griegos de Pontos y de la publicación del trabajo del autor de Sr. Fwtja’di del parlamento de Griegos a pesar de lo retrasa justificó Hellenism de Pontos y conectó el Hellenism moderno con su pasado vía la memoria colectiva, es decir la verdad. ¿La publicación particular de profesor Fotiadis es en adelante un elemento básico de la memoria y? se reclina con en el parlamento de Griegos que transmite en los parlamentos otros países su intención de rendir su memoria respetable que del genocidio “. Hellenism de Pontos es un grande y la parte importante de nación griega y de ella no es posible ser no hecho caso del estado y de la sociedad griega. El salvaguardar y la cita y el internationalisation posteriores de la memoria del día del genocidio, que excede el Hellenism de Pontos y penetra a toda la sociedad griega, constituye el elemento constitutivo principal de las instituciones y de la sociedad que se defienden la historia y la verdad. Y como plomo cuanto el más grande, quizás, escritor de Pontian, Dimitris Psathas “es no permitido nosotros sacrifica la verdad histórica en ninguna conveniencia, como desafortunadamente, te fue establecido se convierte a partir del tiempo que fue grabado la amistad Griego-Turca dicha.

El silencio no crítico de marcas de la historia, él era quizás también uno de su razón s que tanto el malo dirigió la “amistad” con los turcos. Lanzar el velo del oblivion en el pasado, pero seco con, ningún ocultamos. Saber también iguales los turcos qué hicieron sus padres, para ellos evitan lo que él stigmatised lo en el mismo tiempo que los desea toma el lugar entre las naciones civilizadas. Solamente conociendo a turcos y sabiendo ésos y su stigmatised más allá, podemos grabar a veces una amistad Griego-Turca en bases sólidas “.
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Pontus and future

October 12th, 2009

The speech of Michalis Charalalambidis

During the unveiling of the Pontian genocide Monument in Pennsylvania, United States of America, September 10, 2006.

THE KEMALIST APARTHEID IS ONE THING AND DEMOCRACY IS ANOTHER
NEITHER A SCYLLA NOR A HARYBDIS
POLYCENTRIC ANATOLIA

In the mythical sphere, Pontos is evident through Promitheas, the Argonauts,
Iason, the Amazons. According to the Greek believe regarding the creation
of the world, Pontos is one of the basic elements of its creation.
In our historical world, it is evident through the Greek city-states, Sinope,
Amisos, Trapesous, and Kerasous. The Mithridates kings of Pontos; especially
Mithridates VI, the Eupator, erected a statue of Plato in the Academy, which the
Great philosopher himself had established. The Komnini emperors
of the Trapezous empire (1204-1461); the Ypsilanti Leaders of the Greek
and Balkan revolution against the parasitic, feudal, Ottoman regime in the 19th
century.
A new Democracy, in order to honor their ideals and struggles that which are in
accordance with them, named one of its new cities after their names, the name
Ypsilanti in Michigan. This democracy was the United States of America.
For thousands of years Pontos had not only been Financial and Commercial center
But also a Cultural Center.The philosopher, Diogenis, the one who initiated the
Term “cosmopolites”, where the word cosmopolitan derives from. The
geographer and historian Stravon, and Bessarione, the one who rescued the classic
Greek literature texts and books from the totaliterian Ottoman-Islamic brutality;
the great patron of both the European and the Western Civilization, were all
Pontians.
Pontos was a model of an harmonious relation betaween the natural and human
architecture setting, among the nations , the civilizations, the peoples. This
harmony was violently ceased by totalitarian ideologies. This historic cultural
center was murdered and left to neglect and underdevelopment. This is what
the Ottoman Turkish occupation meant, the Sultanic regime, the most brutal
regime ever existed in mankind history. However, the final stroke was given by
the ideology of death, that of Kemalism stood and still stands for. Even nowdays,
other peoples in Asia Minor experience this continuous genocidal racism.
Pontos today is full of ruins of churches, monasteries court yards, palaces,
Government houses, residences, tutorial institutions, villages, towns, castles
which had been exceptional establishments, creations of the universal culture.
1. Greek Intellectual and Politician

If they had not been ravaged, they would have been more majestic than Tuscany,
Vourgoundia,and Antalousia. Yet, the Sultanic Turkish Islam was much more
different than the one in Antalousia. It was brutal and destructive. Nowhere else
throughout the world do you encounter such a big number of monument ruins.
In that area the Taliban had pre-existed from the time to time, eliminating both
People and monuments, they had been supported by Europe and the Soviet. An
Immoral alliance.

Among those ruins today one can encounter the last guardians, the descendents of
that civilization, who after centuries of totalitarian and racist typhoons, they insist
on using a language which is the closest existing to the ancient Greek language.
They are the numerous indigenous populations of those who were Islamized
as well as the Crypto-Christian Pontians who remained in Pontos.

Through the ruins one can identify the melancholic and at the same sweet-looking
Figures of little children, who being asked: “What is your father’s and mother’s
name”? (“Pos len ton kiris ke tin manas”) respond the way a child would have
responded in the Homeric era: “the one hears to the name Aise, the other to
moamet” ( “eis Aise akoui, eis Moamet”). Homer in his verse would say: “ He
heard to the name Achilles, Odisseas, Aiantas”. He does not use a structure
saying that his name was Achilleas. The modern Turkish state denies the
existence of such a language. This was the response of Altay Gengiger(2), the
Turkish representative to the U.N. organization after our intervention to the
Human Rights Commission (February 2002) concerning the rights of those who
were Islamized and today still live in Pontos. He is abolishing instead of
nourishing the language that constitutes the foundation of the Universal
Cultural Inheritance. The young children at school are being terrorized in order
not to use this language. For over eight decades the crime of the Genocide that
had been committed in Pontos by the Neo-Turks and the Kemalists, is still, due to
geopolitical reasons, in process through the crime of silence.

“This should not bring any inconvenience to Turkey”

The cries of the survivors, almost half of the total population, were ceased. After
Kemalism, those who survived escaping to Russia, had to deal with Stalinism.
The Pontian refugees in Russia were displaced to Central Asia, the land of the
Turks. It is a case of one of the biggest disruptions in history.
Yet we, the new generation of pontians, are children of the goddess Mnimosini
(Memory), and the Muses. The ones who gave us the words Music, Museum, as
the Metropolitan Museum.
During the last decades we have asserted the retrieval of our bonds with Mnimosini (Memory) and Muses, thus asserting our right to Memory.
As all the peoples who have undergone policies of violence, we have established
A day to commemorate the Pontian Holocaust, the 19th of May.

It is an Honor for the State of New York, its governor George Patakis the recognition of this crime and his view coincidence with our memory (19th May, 2006). We now have a common memory regarding the totalitarian violence of the Islamic fundamentalism that the City of New York has experienced. Due to geopolitical reasons, our deads have been left with no monuments, no graves, since they parished during the death marches in the inner of Anatolia and Kurdistan, the Auschwitz and Maundhausen in flow.
However, today, on the 10th of September, 2006, there is a great relief, particularly by the part of those who survived and managed to come to the United States of America, straight from Pontos, without even going through Greece. These people speak both Pontian and American.

This monument, the first in the United States, has special gravitas because it is created in a City with a name of which emits messages of an ideology of life, of friendship, and of brotherhood. This is what Philadelphia means in Greek.

Your City, through its very name, stands opposed to any ideology of death that is expressed by Nazism, Kemalism, Islamic totalitarian fundamentalism, an ideology which attributes a perspective of decline to Muslim world overall.
The Greeks and the Pontians, we are people who have known all of them; the Crusades and the Holy Wars, the Nazis and the Kemalists. That is the reason why our word is the word of truth. The truth, the City (Polis) and democracy Demokratia), are the hope to all people, all cultures and religions.

With the gods of war all other gods will be killed. The gods have already abandoned Pontos in the period of 1916-1923. As the gods consider to leave , that if they did not already leave from Libanon, Israel, and Palestine.With “an eye for an eye” all people will get blind.

This City, Philadelphia, from its foundation as a capital of a new Democracy, has been identified with the ideals of life, Freedom, Independence, and Democracy.
That is why, it is of special significance to this City to recall in our memory two great humanists, diplomats, brothers (Philadelphous), friends of our right to life and of presence in our historic homeland, erecting two monuments in their memory. One monument in Athens and other in the United States of
and to this day, they did not erect monuments in memory of these two magnificent men. However, contemporary history brings back th3e memory and the paradigm of the two great American Diplomats, George Horton and Henry Morgenthau. They regarded ever since as hubris to soil the American Democracy with the Kemalist goulaks and the kemalist Auschwitz, as Devislik was in Pontos, South of Trapezous. It has been described by their contemporaries.

Both Diplomats were supporters of Life, human beings, all human beings, peoples
All peoples. Because, apart from anything else, the peoples were and are the conductors, the subjects, the swallows of Democracy in that tragic and historic area of Asia Minor Democracy is neither a Scylla of Kemalism nor a Charybdis
of an easily manipulated , peculiar, destructive and violent Turkish Islam. Nor is the synthesis of the above the guilty Sphinx. The democratic, polycentric, Federated, Civil, and Administrative systems deter all totalitarian ideologies, and lead their peoples, all peoples independently of religion, and nationality, towards mutual respect, co-existence, and prosperity. This is what happened in Germany after Hitler, and in the Iberic peninsula after Franco. This should be done in Iraq. This is the peoples need in Asia Minor and in Mesopotamia. We were much too alone and rather few in Greece and in Europe, when Sadam bombed with chemicals the indigenous historic people, the Kurds (Kartouchous of Xenophon); they are today, the national majority group in Asia Minor.

The quest of the true democracy is much more powerful and mature in Asia Minor. Decades ago I said that it constitutes the basic presupposition for stability, peace, development and prosperity in the wider region. However, the kemalist Apartheid is one thing and Democracy is another. Historically, Asia Minor, Ionia,
Is the birthplace of Democracy both for Europe as well as for Asia. A fact which stems from history. All peoples of Asia Minor and Mesopotamia have a right to their own Renaissance and Democracy and therefore to Peace.

Paintings, historic figures, works of art referring to Pontos, are scattered and decorate nowdays many museums of Europe. I recently heard that in a church in Northern Italy, one can identify the face of Maria Komnini, a princes of Trapezous.She was the most beautiful woman in the 1.400 world. In the 18th century operettas were written in Europe praising her. The Pontians, however, they are not people of Museums. We are the most tragic part of Hellenism and of the European peoples. We have known all, totalitarianisms, Kemalism, Nazism, Fascism, and Stalinism.

We are continuously refugees

Nevertheless, we are a living peoples with flesh and blood, with a high degree of dignity and self respect. We are now more than we were after the genocide and the uprooting, scattered all over the world. Kemal did not solve the Pontian question through slaughtering , he failed. Pontos did not disappear from the face of the earth as he wanted. The Pontians who remaind in Pontos are quite proud and happy to declare that they are Pontians. The same way as the Kurds declare that they are Kurds; and in this , Kemal has also failed.

An expression of this self-respect is this monument in Philadelphia, is the result of Dr.Vassilios Theosdorides labours, a man with great soul and of impeccable moral conviction.

Thanks to you all, the American-Greek citizens will now have in Philadelphia the Ensign of their remembrance, their self-respect and their continuity. The same way that the Americans, the New Yorkers have got their monument,
Ground Zero
Still, the state institutions of the United States, the Congress and the Senate, will be in full harmony with the heritage of the City of Philadelphia when they will recognize –as some other states already have-the second Genocide of the 20th century, The Pontian Genocide. They will also be in harmony with the values and the ideals that the two great men Horton and Morgenthau held, having deep knowledge of the region and a friendly attitude towards its peoples.

I personally, as a descendent of the survivors and of many more who were left un buried in the snowy mountains and the valleys of Anatolia , Pontos and Kurdistan, have a duty to contribute towards the attribution of the rightful for them position in the historic memory of our people. For, if Devislik had been avoided or condmned as they had claimed , not only there would have been no Auschwitz, but it would have put an end to this constant violence and death that has been overflowing and distorting for decades ou historic region. Asia Minor and Mesopotamia no longer accept this distortion and claim their authenticity.

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Η Γενοκτονία (το ψήφισμα της Διεθνούς Ένωσης Ακαδημαικών για τη Μελέτη των Γενοκτοκιών) The HELLENIC GENOCIDE. (The resolution of IAGS).

October 6th, 2009

Η Γενοκτονία (το ψήφισμα της Διεθνούς Ένωσης Ακαδημαικών για τη Μελέτη των Γενοκτοκιών) The HELLENIC GENOCIDE. (The resolution of IAGS).

Η Γενοκτονία (το ψήφισμα της Διεθνούς Ένωσης Ακαδημαικών για τη Μελέτη των Γενοκτοκιών) στα ελληνικά, αγγλικά και γερμανικά.

The HELLENIC GENOCIDE. (The resolution of International Association of Genocide Scholars). In Greek, English and German

Η Διεθνής Ένωση Ακαδημαϊκών για τη Μελέτη των Γενοκτονιών
αναγνωρίζει με ψήφισμά της τη Γενοκτονία των Ασσυρίων και των Ελλήνων.
Είναι πραγματικά ξεχωριστή στιγμή για την παγκόσμια ακαδημαϊκή, επιστημονική και ερευνητική κοινότητα, το ψήφισμα αναγνώρισης της Γενοκτονίας των Ασσυρίων και των Ελλήνων στο διάστημα 1914-1923, ψήφισμα στο οποίο κατέληξε μετά από ψηφοφορία μεταξύ των μελών της, η Διεθνής Ένωση Ακαδημαϊκών για τη Μελέτη των Γενοκτονιών (International Association of Genocide Scholars -IAGS).
Το ψήφισμα δηλώνει ότι «η άρνηση της γενοκτονίας αναγνωρίζεται ευρέως ως τελικό στάδιο της γενοκτονίας, που φυλάσσει την ατιμωρησία για τους δράστες της γενοκτονίας, και προετοιμάζει το έδαφος για τις μελλοντικές γενοκτονίες».

Την εκτενή ενισχυτική τεκμηρίωση για τις γενοκτονίες των Ασσυρίων και των Ελλήνων κυκλοφόρησαν στα μέλη IAGS στους μήνες πριν από την ψηφοφορία, και είναι διαθέσιμη στον ιστοχώρο http://www.genocidetext.net/ iags_resolution_ supportingdocumentation.htm.
Το ψήφισμα το οποίο έλαβε το 83% των ψήφων, αναφέρεται στις πρακτικές του οθωμανικού κράτους ενάντια στις χριστιανικές μειονότητες, Αρμενίων, Ασσυρίων (Χαλδαίων, Νεστοριανών, Σύριοι, Αραμαίοι, Ιακωβίτες, Ορθόδοξοι Σύριοι), Ελλήνων (Ποντίων, Θρακών, Ιώνων), που οδήγησαν στη γενοκτονία εναντίον τους. Το 1997 η Διεθνής Ένωση Ακαδημαϊκών για τη Μελέτη των Γενοκτονιών αναγνώρισε την γενοκτονία των Αρμενίων και η μέχρι τώρα δραστηριότητα των μελών της Ένωσης, έδειξε ότι υπήρξαν και άλλες γενοκτονίες από το ίδιο καθεστώς.

Οι Ασσύριοι, οι Έλληνες αντιμετώπισαν τις ίδιες μεθόδους εξόντωσής τους, όπως μαζικές εκτελέσεις, πορείες θανάτου, και λιμός. Το μέλος της Διεθνούς Ένωσης Ακαδημαϊκών για τη Μελέτη των Γενοκτονιών καθηγητής του πανεπιστημίου του Γεηλ Adam Jones σύνταξε το ψήφισμα και με πρωταγωνίστρια την Thea Halo, συγγραφέως του βιβλίου «Ούτε το όνομά μου», και σε συνεργασία με επιστήμονες από όλον τον κόσμο, το ψήφισμα έγινε δεκτό, καλώντας ταυτόχρονα την Τουρκία να αναγνωρίσει τις γενοκτονίες που διέπραξε.
Η συντριπτική υποστήριξη που δόθηκε στο ψήφισμα από την κορυφαία στον κόσμο οργάνωση μελέτης των γενοκτονιών, θα βοηθήσει στην ανάπτυξη της παγκόσμιας συνείδησης για τις γενοκτονίες των Ασσυρίων και των Ελλήνων και θα ενεργήσει επίσης ως ισχυρός αντίθετα προς εκείνους, ειδικά στη σημερινή Τουρκία, η οποία αγνοεί ακόμη ή αρνείται εντελώς τις γενοκτονίες των οθωμανικών χριστιανικών μειονοτήτων.

Ο Φάνης Μαλκίδης διδάσκει στο Δημοκρίτειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θράκης και είναι μέλος της Διεθνούς Ένωσης Ακαδημαϊκών για τη Μελέτη των Γενοκτονιών.

ΤΟ ΠΛΗΡΕΣ ΚΕΙΜΕΝΟ ΤΟΥ ΨΗΦΙΣΜΑΤΟΣ ΤΗΣ IAGS:
ΕΚΤΙΜΩΝΤΑΣ ΌΤΙ η άρνηση της γενοκτονίας αναγνωρίζεται ευρέως ως τελικό στάδιο της γενοκτονίας, που φυλάσσει την ατιμωρησία για τους δράστες της γενοκτονίας, και προετοιμάζει το έδαφος για τις μελλοντικές γενοκτονίες
ΕΚΤΙΜΩΝΤΑΣ ΌΤΙ η γενοκτονία ενάντια στους χριστιανικούς πληθυσμούς από το οθωμανικό κράτος κατά τη διάρκεια και μετά από του πρώτου παγκόσμιου πολέμου απεικονίζεται συνήθως ως γενοκτονία ενάντια σε Αρμενίους μόνο, με μερική μονο αναγνώριση των ποιοτικά παρόμοιων γενοκτονιών ενάντια σε άλλες χριστιανικές μειονότητες της οθωμανικής αυτοκρατορίας
ΕΙΝΑΙ πεποίθηση της Διεθνούς Ένωσης Ακαδημαϊκών για τη Μελέτη των Γενοκτονιών ότι η οθωμανική εκστρατεία ενάντια στις χριστιανικές μειονότητες της αυτοκρατορίας μεταξύ 1914 και 1923 αποτέλεσε μια γενοκτονία ενάντια σε Αρμένιους, Ασσύριους και Έλληνες.
Η Διεθνής Ένωση Ακαδημαϊκών για τη Μελέτη των Γενοκτονιών ζητά από την κυβέρνηση της Τουρκίας για να αναγνωρίσει τις γενοκτονίες ενάντια σε αυτούς τους πληθυσμούς, για να εκδώσει μια επίσημη συγγνώμη, και για να λάβει τα γρήγορα και σημαντικά μέτρα προς την αποκατάσταση.

The following resolution has been proposed by Adam Jones and Thea Halo for
vote at the IAGS Biennial Business Meeting on July 12, 2007 in Sarajevo. It
has been approved by the IAGS Resolutions Committee, Peter Balakian, Chair;
Greg Stanton, Elihu Richter.

PROPOSED RESOLUTION - IAGS 2007

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.

Supporting materials:

Notes on the Genocides of Christian Populations of the Ottoman Empire
Submitted in support of a resolution recognizing the Armenian, Assyrian, and
Pontic and Anatolian Greek genocides of 1914-23, to be presented at the
conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS),
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 2007.

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Wikipedia Sources
All these entries feature numerous scholarly citations and references from
contemporary news accounts.
_The Armenian Genocide_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide)
_The Assyrian Genocide_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_Genocide)
_The Pontic Greek Genocide_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontic_Greek_Genocide)

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Ottoman Genocide against Christian Minorities: General Comments and Sources
“It is believed that in Turkey between 1913 and 1922, under the successive
regimes of the Young Turks and of Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), more than 3.5
million Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Christians were massacred in a state-organized
and state-sponsored campaign of destruction and genocide, aiming at wiping
out from the emerging Turkish Republic its native Christian populations. This
Christian Holocaust is viewed as the precursor to the Jewish Holocaust in
WWII. To this day, the Turkish government ostensibly denies having committed
this genocide.”

- Prof. Israel Charney, President of the IAGS
“Turks admit that the Armenian persecution is the first step in a plan to get
rid of Christians, and that Greeks would come next. … Turkey henceforth is
to be for Turks alone.”

- Peter Balakian, The Burning Tigris, quoting the New York Times, September
14, 1915.
“While the death toll in the trenches of Western Europe were close to 2
million by the summer of 1915, the extermination of innocent civilians in Turkey
(the Armenians, but also Syrian and Assyrian Christians and large portions of
the Greek population, especially the Greeks of Pontos, or Black Sea region)
was reaching 1 million.”

- Peter Balakian, The Burning Tigris, p. 285-286.
In a front page article written by Mustafa Kemal himself, for the August 1,
1926 edition of the Los Angeles Examiner, Kemal also affirms the slaughters.
Kemal writes:
“those … left-over from the former Young Turkish Party, … 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 …”

- Mustafa Kemal Pasha, “Kemal Promises More Hangings of Political
Antagonists in Turkey,” Los Angeles Examiner, August 1, 1926. p. 1.
“If members of the United Nations pass appropriate legislation such incidents
such as pogroms of Czarist Russian and the massacres of Armenians and Greeks
by Turkey would be punishable as genocide.”

- “Genocide Under the Law of Nations,” New York Times, January 5, 1947.
Contemporary newspaper commentary
THE CALVARY OF A NATION: A PERSONAL NARRATIVE
“The extermination of the Armenians is well under way. Thousands of
Nestorians and Syrians [of the Assyrian Orthodox Church] have vanished from the face
of the earth. More than 300,000 Greeks have been deported from the Ottoman
Empire, and many more sent to the interior. The fate that awaits the surviving
Christians and Jews — in fact, of all the non-Turkish elements — depends on
the term of the fratricidal war and its fortunes. The Young Turks are
watchfully waiting to carry out their program: ‘Turkey for the Turks.’”

Atlantic Monthly, November 1916

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The Assyrian Genocide
Hannibal Travis, “‘Native Christians Massacred’: The Ottoman Genocide of the
Assyrians during World War I,” Genocide Studies and Prevention, 1: 3 (2006),
pp. 327-371.
Abstract: “The Ottoman Empire’s widespread persecution of Assyrian civilians
during World War I constituted a form of genocide, the present-day term for
an attempt to destroy a national, ethnic, or religious group, in whole or in
part. Ottoman soldiers and their Kurdish and Persian militia partners
subjected hundreds of thousands of Assyrians to a deliberate and systematic campaign
of massacre, torture, abduction, deportation, impoverishment, and cultural
and ethnic destruction. Established principles of international law outlawed
this war of extermination against Ottoman Christian civilians before it was
embarked upon, and ample evidence of genocidal intent has surfaced in the form
of admissions by Ottoman officials. Nevertheless, the international community
has been hesitant to recognize the Assyrian experience as a form of
genocide. The Assyrian genocide is indistinguishable in principle from its Armenian
counterpart, however, and its recognition by scholars and the international
community may assist in the resettlement and relief of the Assyrian remnant,
currently fleeing by the thousands from its homelands in Iraq.”
Note: Travis’s article contains 305 footnotes, providing a rich buttress of
primary and secondary sources for the Assyrian genocide. Among the most
important are:
Sébastian de Courtois, The Forgotten Genocide: The Eastern Christians, the
Last Arameans. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2004.
Eugene Griselle, Syriens et Chaldéens: Leur Martyre, Leurs Espérances.
Paris: Bloud et Gay, 1918.
Yusuf Malek, The British Betrayal of the Assyrians. Warren Point, NJ:
Kimball Press, 1936.
Mordechai Nisan, Minorities in the Middle East: A History of Struggle and
Self-Expression. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1991.
Yonan H. Shahbaz, The Rage of Islam: An Account of the Massacre of
Christians by the Turks in Persia. Philadelphia, PA: Roger Williams Press, 1918.
Abraham Yohannan, The Death of a Nation, or: The Ever Persecuted Nestorians
or Assyrian Christians. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1916.
Gabriele Yonan, Ein vergassener Holocaust: Die Vernichtung der christlichen
Assyrer in der Turkei. Gottingen: Gesellschaft fur bedrohte Volker, 1989.
David Gaunt, Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations
in Eastern Anatolia during World War I (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2006)
- “The history of this region is not a matter of general knowledge, so it is
necessary to paint a broad background to the wartime activities of ‘ethnic
cleansing’ and genocide, which will be described in considerable detail further
on. By the 1920s, the multidenominational Christian populations of the
region were radically depleted and almost entirely displaced from their historic
settlemetns. Represerntatives of the remnants of these groups insist that they
were the victims of a genocide planned and carried out by the wartime
leadership of the Ottoman Empire. The Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syriac groups have
proposed the term ‘Sayfo,’ meaning ‘year of the sword,’ as a name for this
catastrophe. In many countries, parliamentary bills have been considered which
would brand Sayfo as an act of genocide of the same rank and slightly better
known case of the Armenian genocide.” (p. 1)
- “It is possible that the Ottoman deportations [during World War I] were
planned to be brutal but not fatal, to be limited and not global; to target only
Armenians and not the other Christians. But designs and reality are separate
phenomena. There were three separate phaess of forced migration during the
war era. The first was the slow-paced exchange of minority populations begun
by Talaat as Minister of the Interior before the war. The second was the
‘military necessity’ banishments of Armenian men started by Enver early in 1915
and carried out by the army. The third was the total removal of entire
Christian populations in the summer of 1915 on the order of Talaat and organized byt
he local civil administrations together with death squads of local
militamen.” (p. 65)
- “Through various compilations there is written evidence of massacres and
attacks against Christians in 178 small towns and villages in Diyarbekir
province and its nearest neighboring regions [in 1915]” (p. 76). “Despite the
official declarations excluding them from the ‘deportations,’ non-Armenian
Christians kept on being the object of mass murder” (p. 77).
- “On March 10, 1915, the Russian consult, Pavel Vvedenski, became the first
civilian official to inspect a horrifying atrocity in an out-of-the-way spot
on the plain of Salmas, near several small iranian towns. This was the
village of Haftevan, between Khosrowa, the center of the Chaldean Catholic
minority, and Dilman, an Armenian town. This was the first consciosuly planned mass
execution of civilians committed by the Ottoman army in its Caucasus
campaigns, the first of many. Before his eyes were the remains fo the adult Christian
male population of an entire district. Vvedenski found hundreds of corpses
lying exposed everywhere. All of the bodies were mutilated and, as far as he
could see, most had been decapitated. … The vice-commander of Russia’s First
Caucasus Army, K. Matikyan, counted the corpses and came up with a total of
707 Armenians and Syriacs (or Aisori as he called them) who had been murdered
by Ottoman soldiers and Kurdish volunteers …” (p. 81).
- Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs files formal protest, March 5, 1915,
referring to “violence [that] is most noted int he areas where there are many
villages inhabited by Christians, where the population has been violated and
mercilessly massacred.” (P. 82)
- “The Assyrian tribes were the prime target among all the Syriac groups in
the Ottoman Empire, and the CUP spoke of them with the same degree of
suspicion as they did the Armenians. The ethnic cleansing of [the] Hakkiri
[mountains] was a consequence of a series of government decrees, some of which predated
the war. The eradication of the autonomous Assyrian tribes had been a
favorite idea of Talaat Pasha, the Minister of the Interior, because they made up
an almost solid non-Muslim eagle’s nest on an important border. When war
became imminent, ethnic cleansing began on a small scale and then spiraled after a
few months to a full-scale operation. Talaat made the final decision at the
moment it was clear that the Assyrian tribes were being defeated. He wrote to
the valis of Mosul and Van accusing the Nestorians of cooperating with the
Armenians and Russians. He proposed: ‘We should not let them return to their
homelands.’” (P. 121) “Here is the story behind their exodus, which also
amounted to one of the most complete cases of ethnic cleansing. This is a tale of
government plans for deportation, harassment, and massacres by local Kurdish
chiefs — all leading up to a full war between the well-armed Ottoman army
and the traditioanl Assyrian tribal warriors. … The documentation is sparse,
consisting of news of massacres, executions, attacks, invasions, and
retreats, without much clarification. … The massacres in the sanjak capital Baskale
were so many that it gives the impression of containing a combined
concentration and death camp where refugees were held captive until their execution.
However, no one managed to escape from Bashkale, and thus we lack information
about what went on inside the town …” (P. 122)
- “Ceaseless ethnic cleansing by means of ruthless attacks and panic plagued
the Turkish-Iranian border strip. As soon as the Russians left a village or
town undefended, Kurdish irregulars or volunteers moved back in and punished
the population for alleged collaboration.” (P. 135)
- “Reshid [Bey] amassed great riches, as did many other local administrators
and politicians [during the genocide]. They held the cities of Diyarbekir and
Mardin ina state of terror during the summer and autumn of 1915. It was
reported at the end of August that 120,000 ‘Armenians’ had been deported from the
province and there were none left. The majority of the deportees were dead;
the victims included Christians of all denominations.” (P. 152) “… Talat
sent a general order for the deportation of the Armenians on June 21 … In
fact, by the time the order arrived, mass extermination of Christians of all
faiths had been going on for several weeks throughout the length and breadth of
the province …” (P. 153).
- “Jacques Rhetore estimated that 200,000 Christians were killed within the
province of Diyarbekir. Of that number, 144,185 (amounting to 82 percent of
the Christian population) were native residents and about 55,000 were outsiders
who had been killed when their deportation caravans were attacked. Victims
came from all faiths, and the largest groups were from the Syriac Orthodox
Church with 60,725 deaths and the Gregorian Armenians with 58,000 deaths.” (P.
177)
- “There are also some further traits that were systematic. There was the
similarity in urban areas of the multistep pattern of shattering the Christian
population. Also, the creation of conflicts between the denominations in order
to discourage solidarity and united defense. Step one, the arrest and
interrogation under torture of the male notables, including religious leaders.
Step two, the killing of the notables about one week later. Step three, the
deportation and killing of the remaining adult males. Step four, the formation of
columns of women and children who were told that they were being sent to join
their male relatives and marched out of the towns. Throughout, the
Christians were extorted of their wealth. …” (P. 178)
- Refers to “the anti-Christian genocide”: “… By early 1915, systematic,
government-sanctioned ethno-religious hostility gradually assumed a structured
form. This planning concerned the targeting of certain ethnic and religious
groups, the dates at which specific areas would be evacuated, and whether
certain non-Muslim groups would be temporarily excluded and for how long. The
exact manner in which deportations and massacres would be carried out was the
object of little high-level planning and was left to local initiative. … It
has been claimed that deportations took place in humane and secure conditions,
but the lived experience of Christians in Diyarbekir province, as well as
Hakkari and Sa’irt sanjaks, gives absolutely no support to that interpretation.
In this region, ethnic cleansing, wholesale massacres, mass rape, and
attacks on outnumbered villages were a daily occurrence throughout June, July, and
August 1915. Tens of thousands of deportees from other provinces were
slaughtered along the roads of Diyarbekir and the banks of the Tigris River as a
matter of course. Perpetrators and instigators ranged from government officials,
army officers, and local politicians to tribal aghas, brigands, local
riff-raff, and released convicts. Only in the very final months of the
anti-Christian policy (from September 1915) is there solid evidence that deported
Christians from Diyarbekir province actually began to arrive at their stated
destinations.” (Pp. 296-97)
- “The Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syriac victims were easy to single out because
they belonged to a non-Muslim group and spoke non-Turkic languages. They
were thus targeted for violent ethnic cleansing as religious and ethnic groups,
but not as racial groups. Thus the reason for their extermination should be
sought against the background of their religious and ethnic deviation from the
political standards held by the ideologues in power.” (Pp. 303-04)
- “The degree of extermination and the brutality of the massacres indicate
extreme pent-up hatred on the popular level. Christians, the so-called gawar
infidels, were being killed in almost all sorts of situations. They were
collected at the local town hall, walking in the streets, fleeing on the roads, at
harvest, in the villages, in the caves and tunnels, in the caravanserais, in
the prisons, under torture, on the river rafts, on road repair gangs, on the
way to be put on trial. There was no specific and technological way of
carrying out the murders like the Nazis’ extermiantion camps. A common feature was
that those killed were unarmed, tied up, or otherwise defenseless. All
possible means of killing were used: shooting, stabbing, stoning, crushing, throat
cutting, throwing off of roofs, drowning, decapitation. Witnesses talk of
seeing collections of ears and noses and of brigands boasting of their
collections of female body parts.” (P. 304)
- “The intense extermination of the Christians was completed in a short
period between June and September 1915. Throughout the southeast Anatolian
provinces, bodies of the victims lay strewn everywhere: along the highways, outside
the city gates, on hills outside town, in caves, in ravines, in wells and
cisterns, in latrines, floating on the lakes and rivers. No traveler could miss
them. In 1919, after the war, Edward Noel, the British political foficer,
observed corpses still rotting along the roads and noted that all the male
corpses were on their stomachs but the corpses of women were lying face up on
their backs. It was as if an incurable plague of hundreds of Jedwabnes and
Srebrenicas afflicted the region.” (P. 305)
- “This book has told a story of ethnic wars, innumerable retributions of
suspected collaborators, and astounding genocidal projects throughout
southeastern Anatolia. What happened was indeed the feared ‘general massacre’ that the
German diplomats in July 1915 warned the regime in Istanbul was imminent
unless it lessened the brutality of the forced deportations and the Diyarbekir
massacres. this term, ‘general massacre,’ along with others like
‘extermination’ and ‘annihilation,’ was as close as the German diplomats at that time
could come to formulating the modern concept ‘genocide,’ as defined by the United
Nations in 1948. The Vatican expressed its fear for ‘the threatening
destruction of en [sic] entire people,’ to which the Sultan replied on November 19,
1915, acknowledging the deaths of innocent people and explaining that it had
unfortunately proved impossible to separate the ‘peaceful elements from those
in rebellion.’ Already on May 24, 1915, at the very beginning of persecution,
the Entente powers labeled them ‘crimes against humanity and civilization.’”
(P. 315)
- From testimony of Major E. Noel, “on Special Duty in Kurdistan (1919)”:
“… Even if Armenian treason could be proved to the hilt, there could scarcely
be any contention, even on the part of the Turks, that the other Christian
communities, Jacobite, Chaldean and Syrian, were parties thereto.
“The people were not long left in doubt as to whom the word ‘traitor’
referred to. Orders were received from Constantinople to disarm any Christian
soldiers and gendarmes. Officers were told to dismiss their Christian servants and
in future to allow no Christian to have any access to them. In January 1915
all Christians were dismissed from Government employ. In February and March,
Turkish officials, including even deputies, visited the tribes under the guise
of purchasing transport animals, and openly preached the doctrine of death
to the infidel. … Openly the policy adopted was to: 1. Deport suspects. 2..
Put to forced labour anybody found in possession of arms. 3. Put to death
anybody convicted of treason. In practice, however, the secret procedure laid
down was to arrange for the massacre of all three of the above classes …” (Pp.
441-42) “The outstanding feature, which is free from all element of
conjecture, is that the massacres were scientifically organized from Constantinople,
and the local ignorant Muslim was only used as a tool. It is not he who
should be punished but the Turk in high places, and again the local Turk who acted
as his willing agent, and who filled his pockets in the process.” (P. 443)
Other sources
“In 1915 the killing resumed with a full-scale, government-sponsored genocide
of the Armenians and the Assyrians. At Sairt in June 1915, the massacres of
Assyrians by ‘The Butchers’ Battalion,’ a term the military Turkish governor
of Van, Djeudet Bey chose for himself and his 8,000 soldiers, left at least
17,000 Assyrians dead. Sairt was only one of forty-one villages attacked that
year where the Assyrian inhabitants were slaughtered.”

- Thea Halo, Not Even My Name, St. Martin’s Press, New York 2000/2001.
Sources: American Committee for Armenian and Syrian [Assyrian] Relief. Armenia,
New York: Amer. Comm. for Armenian/Syrian Relief, 1917; and Armenian Refugees
(Lord Mayor’s Fund), The Plight of Armenian and Assyrian Christians (London:
Spottiswoode, Ballantyne and Co., 1919). For further bibliographies see:
http://www.umd.umich.edu/dept/armenian/facts/gen_bib1.html.
Documentation on the treatment of Assyrians was compiled by Arnold Toynbee
and originally titled: Papers and Documents on the Treatment of Armenians and
Assyrian Christians by the Turks, 1915-1916, in the Ottoman Empire and
North-West Persia (London, 1916, Foreign Office Archives, 3 Class 96,
Miscellaneous, Series II, six files, FO 96*205-210). “And Assyrian” was removed from the
title by the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs, James Bryce, co-founder of
the English-Armenian Society, when the book was published in late 1916. The
French translation presented at the Paris Peace Conference in 1920 further
eliminated mention of the Assyrians by the removal of the 100 pages that
referred to them. The Assyrian genocide was also reported in the British
government’s Blue Book and in numerous reports by missionaries and relief workers.
“[I will] relate the details of the tragic martyrdom of the Assyro-Chaldeans
from the Jezireh district on the Tigris [not far] from Midyat, where more
than fifty villages, whose names I know, villages for the most part fertile and
flourishing …were completely sacked and ruined while the entire population
was put to the sword.”

- Jean Naayem, Les Assyro-Chaldeans et les Armeniens Massacres Par les Turcs
(Paris: Sebastien de Courtois, 1920), p. 162.

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The Greek Genocide
Henry Morgenthau, The Murder of a Nation
“The martyrdom of the Greeks, therefore, comprised two periods: that
antedating the war, and that which began in the early part of 1915. The first
affected chiefly the Greeks on the seacoast of Asia Minor. The second affected
those living in Thrace and in the territories surrounding the Sea of Marmora, the
Dardanelles, the Bosphorus, and the coast of the Black Sea. These latter, to
the extent of several hundred thousand, were sent to the interior of Asia
Minor. The Turks adopted almost identically the same procedure against the
Greeks as that which they had adopted against the Armenians. They began by
incorporating the Greeks into the Ottoman army and then transforming them into
labour battalions, using them to build roads in the Caucasus and other scenes of
action. These Greek soldiers, just like the Armenians, died by thousands from
cold, hunger, and other privations. The same house-to-house searches for
hidden weapons took place in the Greek villages, and Greek men and women were bea
ten and tortured just as were their fellow Armenians. The Greeks had to
submit to the same forced requisitions, which amounted in their case, as in the
case of the Armenians, merely to plundering on a wholesale scale. The Turks
attempted to force the Greek subjects to become Mohammedans; Greek girls, just
like Armenian girls, were stolen and taken to Turkish harems and Greek boys
were kidnapped and placed in Moslem households. The Greeks, just like the
Armenians, were accused of disloyalty to the Ottoman Government; the Turks accused
them of furnishing supplies to the English submarines in the Marmora and
also of acting as spies. The Turks also declared that the Greeks were not loyal
to the Ottoman Government, and that they also looked forward to the day when
the Greeks inside of Turkey would become part of Greece. These latter charges
were unquestionably true; that the Greeks, after suffering for five
centuries the most unspeakable outrages at the hands of the Turks, should look
longingly to the day when their territory should be part of the fatherland, was to
be expected. The Turks, as in the case of the Armenians, seized upon this as
an excuse for a violent onslaught on the whole race. Everywhere the Greeks
were gathered in groups and, under the so-called protection of Turkish
gendarmes, they were transported, the larger part on foot, into the interior. Just
how many were scattered in this fashion is not definitely known, the estimates
varying anywhere from 200,000 up to 1,000,000. These caravans suffered great
privations, but they were not submitted to general massacre as were the
Armenians, and this is probably the reason why the outside world has not heard so
much about them. The Turks showed them this greater consideration not from
any motive of pity. The Greeks, unlike the Armenians, had a government which
was vitally interested in their welfare. At this time there was a general
apprehension among the Teutonic Allies that Greece would enter the war on the side
of the Entente, and a wholesale massacre of Greeks in Asia Minor would
unquestionably have produced such a state of mind in Greece that its pro-German
king would have been unable longer to keep his country out of the war. It was
only a matter of state policy, therefore, that saved these Greek subjects of
Turkey from all the horrors that befell the Armenians. But their sufferings
are still terrible, and constitute another chapter in the long story of crimes
for which civilization will hold the Turk responsible.

Amb. Henry Morgenthau, Sr. “The Murder of a Nation,” ch. XXIV, in
Morgenthau, Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story, 1919 (written in 1918, before Greece entered
the war on the side of the Allies in 1917, therefore before the further
massacres of Greeks between 1918 and 1923), pp. 52-53.
When “the civilized world did not protest against these deportations the
Turks afterward decided to apply the same methods on a larger scale not only to
the Greeks but to the Armenians, Syrians, Nestorians, and others of its
subject peoples.”
“the Greeks were the first victims of this nationalizing idea … in the few
months preceding the European War, the Ottoman Government began deporting its
Greek subjects along the coast of Asia Minor.”
“The story which I have told about the Armenians I could also tell with
certain modifications about the Greeks and the Syrians.”

Morgenthau, “The Murder of a Nation.”
Contemporary commentary and official pronouncements
14 May 1914: Official document from Talaat Bey Minister of the Interior to
Prefect of Smyrna: “The Greeks, who are Ottoman subjects, and form the
majority of inhabitants in your district, take advantage of the circumstances in
order to provoke a revolutionary current, favourable to the intervention of the
Great Powers. Consequently, it is urgently necessary that the Greeks occupying
the coastline of Asia Minor be compelled to evacuate their villages and
install themselves in the vilayets of Erzerum and Chaldea. If they should refuse
to be transported to the appointed places, kindly give instructions to our
Moslem brothers, so that they shall induce the Greeks, through excesses of all
sorts, to leave their native places of their own accord. Do not forget to
obtain, in such cases, from the emigrants certificates stating that they leave
their homes on their own initiative, so that we shall not have political
complications ensuing from their displacement.”
31 July 1915: German priest J. Lepsius: “The anti-Greek and anti-Armenian
persecutions are two phases of one — the extermination of the Christian
element from Turkey.”
16 July 1916: German Consul Kuchhoff from Amisos to Berlin: “The entire
Greek population of Sinope and the coastal region of the county of Kastanomu has
been exiled. Exile and extermination in Turkish are the same, for whoever is
not murdered, will die from hunger or illness.”
30 November 1916: Austrian consul at Amisos Kwiatkowski to Austrian Foreign
Minister Baron Burian: “on 26 November Rafet Bey told me: ‘we must finish off
the Greeks as we did with the Armenians …’ on 28 November Rafet Bey told
me: ‘today I sent squads to the interior to kill every Greek on sight.’ I fear
for the elimination of the entire Greek population and a repeat of what
occurred last year.”
13 December 1916: German Ambassador Kuhlman to Chancellor Hollweg in Berlin:
“Consuls Bergfeld in Samsun and Schede in Kerasun report of displacement of
local population and murders. Prisoners are not kept. Villages reduced to
ashes. Greek refugee families consisting mostly of women and children being
marched from the coasts to Sebasteia. The need is great.”
20 January 1917: Austrian Ambassador Pallavicini: “the situation for the
displaced is desperate. Death awaits them all. I spoke to the Grand Vizier and
told him that it would be sad if the persecution of the Greek element took the
same scope and dimension as the Armenia persecution.”
31 January 1917: Austrian Chancellor Hollweg’s report: “… the indications
are that the Turks plan to eliminate the Greek element as enemies of the
state, as they did earlier with the Armenians. The strategy implemented by the
Turks is of displacing people to the interior without taking measures for their
survival by exposing them to death, hunger, and illness. The abandoned homes
are then looted and burnt or destroyed. Whatever was done to the Armenians
is being repeated with the Greeks.”

- Sources: Found in the archives of the Foreign Ministry of Greece, as
reported by Professor Kostas Fotiadis, professor of History at Aristotelian
University in Greece and compiled in a 14 volumes of documentation: Constantinos
Emm. Fotiadis, The Genocide of the Pontus Greeks by the Turks. Heodotus, Greece
(2004). See also http://www.greek-genocide.org/quotes.html#bkmk5
MASSACRES OF GREEKS IN TURKEY REPORTED
Hundreds Killed by Turks and Bulgars in Many Towns, London Hears

- New York Times, 20 April 1916
“Stories of cruelty and outrage in the expulsion of the inhabitants from the
villages — features which it was impossible indeed should be lacking — are
simply confirmed. A good many girls are in the hospitals at Aivali in
consequence of their treatment by the moharjis.”

- Manchester Guardian, 29 June 1914
“The story of the Greek deportations is not yet generally known. Quietly and
gradually the same treatment is being meted out to the Greeks as to the
Armenians and Syrians [Assyrians]. Although closely guarded, certain echoes come
out from time to time. There were some two or three million Greeks in Asia
Minor at the outbreak of the war in 1914 subject to Turkish rule. According to
the latest reliable and authoritative accounts, some seven to eight hundred
thousand have been deported, mainly from the coast regions into the interior of
Asia Minor. At the declaration of the present war all persecutions were
stopped, but the spring of 1915 brought to the stage a tragic, novel drama,
unique in the history of the world as to its horrors and destructiveness — that is
, the Armenian deportation; under that innocent name the extermination of a
Christian race was started. Along with the Armenians most of the Greeks of
the Marmora regions and Thrace have been deported on the pretext that they gave
information to the enemy. Along the Aegean coast, Aivalik stands out as the
worst sufferer. According to one report, some 70,000 Greeks have been
deported towards Konia and beyond. At least 7000 have been slaughtered. The Greek
Bishop of Aivalik committed suicide in despair.”

- Frank W. Jackson, Chairman of the Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia
Minor, October 17, 1917
“Will the outrageous terrorising, the cruel torturing, the driving of women
into the harems, the debauchery of innocent girls, the sale of many of them at
eighty cents each, the murdering of hundreds of thousands and the
deportation to, and starvation in, the deserts of other hundreds of thousands, the
destruction of hundreds of villages and cities, will the wilful execution of
this whole devilish scheme to annihilate the Armenian, Greek and Syrian
Christians of Turkey — will all this go unpunished?”

- Henry Morgenthau, “The Greatest Horror in History,” Red Cross Magazine,
March 1918.
“Les persécutions antihelléniques poursuivies en Turquie depuis le début de
la guerre européenne ne sont que la continuation du plan d’extermination de
l’Hellénisme mis, depuis 1913, en pratique par les Jeunes-Turcs.”
Translation:
“The anti-Greek persecutions carried out in Turkey since the beginning of
the European War are but the continuation of the plan of extermination of
Hellenism practiced by the Young Turks, since 1913.”

- Bernard Grasset, Les Persécution Antihelléniques en Turquie Depuis le
Début de la Guerre Européenne. D’après les rapports officiels des agents
diplomatiques et consulaires (Paris, Librairie, 1918), Introduction.
“… the Greeks of Anatolia are suffering the same or worse fate than did the
Armenians in the massacres of the Great War. The deportation of the Greeks
is not limited to the Black Sea Coast but is being carried out throughout the
whole of the country governed by the Nationalists. Greek villages are
deported entire, the few Turkish or Armenian inhabitants are forced to leave, and
the villages are burned. The purpose is unquestionably to destroy all Greeks in
that territory and to leave Turkey for the Turks. These deportations are, of
course, accompanied by cruelties of every form just as was true in the case
of the Armenian deportations five and six years ago.”

- Stanley Hopkins, American employee of the Near East Relief, 16/11/1921
Additional Sources
“In 1916, the Pontic Greeks along the Black Sea coast were again targeted.
Six thousand Pontian men, women, and children of the Bafra area were burned
alive as they took refuge in churches. In the town of Alajam another 2,500
Pontians were slaughtered. Of the 25,000 inhabitants of the Bafra region alone,
90 percent were eliminated by mass slayings or by sending them on long death
marches where they were often raped and robbed and left to die of disease and
starvation.”

- Dr. Harry Psomiades, The Phantom Republic of Pontos and the Magali
Catastrophe (The Hellenic Studies Forum Inc. of Australia, 1992)
“A study of this question may be found in Publication No. 3, of the American
Hellenic Society, 1918, in which the statement is made that one million, five
hundred thousand Greeks were driven from their homes in Thrace and Asia
Minor, and that half these populations had perished from deportations, outrages
and famine.
“The violent and inflammatory articles in the Turkish newspapers, above
referred to, appeared unexpectedly and without any cause. They were so evidently
‘inspired’ by the authorities, that it seems a wonder that even ignorant Turks
did not understand this. Cheap lithographs were also got up, executed in the
clumsiest and most primitive manner-evidently local productions. They
represented Greeks cutting up Turkish babies or ripping open pregnant Moslem
women, and various purely imaginary scenes, founded on no actual events or even
accusations elsewhere made. These were hung in the mosques and schools. This
campaign bore immediate fruit and set the Turk to killing, a not very difficult
thing to do.”

- George Horton, The Blight of Asia (1956)
April 5, 1922: The American Consul at Aleppo, Jesse B. Jackson, filed a
report from Dr. Mark H. Ward and Dr. F. D. Yowell, Director of the Near East
Relief unit at Harpoot. In it Ward and Yowell testify to the tens of thousands of
Greeks from the Black Sea region — two-thirds of whom were women and
children — being marched south, with medical attention, food and shelter denied to
them, causing many thousands to perish from ’starvation, exposure, typhus,
and dysentery.’
Yowell and Ward affirmed: “The policy of the Turks toward the Greeks who
were, and are still, being deported, through Sivas-Harpoot Diarbekr from the
Black Sea Coast and the Konia district, seems to be one of extermination.”
Yowell, May 5, 1922: “Conditions of Greek minorities are even worse than
those of the Armenians. Sufferings of the Greeks deported from districts behind
the battlefront are terrible and still continue. These deportees begun to
reach Harpoot before my arrival last October. Of thirty thousand Greek refugees
who left Sivas, five thousand died on the way before reaching Harpoot. One
American relief worker saw and counted fifteen hundred bodies on the road east
of Harpoot.
“In Harpoot district our relief has been to give these needy people in
opposition to the wishes of the Turks who did everything in their power to prevent
our doing so. We were not allowed to employ any Greeks in our work or to
take any orphan children, left by dying Greek deportees, into our orphanages..
Sick Greeks could not be received into our hospital except on the written order
of the Turkish Commissioner.
“Two thirds of the Greek deportees are women and children. All along the
route where these deportees have travelled Turks are permitted to visit refugee
group and select women and girls whom they desire for any purpose. These
deportations are still in progress, and if American aid is now withdrawn all will
perish. Their whole route today strewn with bodies of their dead, which are
consumed by dogs, wolves, vultures. The Turks make no effort to bury these
dead and the deportees are not permitted to do so. The chief causes of death are
starvation, dysentery, typhus. Turkish authorities frankly state that is
their deliberate intention to exterminate the Greeks, and all their actions
supports this statements. At present fresh deportations and outrages are starting
in all parts of Asia Minor from northern seaports to the south eastern
district.”
Dr. Mark H. Ward, Medical missionary for the Near East Relief, July 6, 1922:
“From May, 1921, to March last, when I left, thirty thousand deportees, of
whom six thousand were Armenians and the rest Greeks, were collected at Sivas
and deported through Kharput to Bitlis and Van. Of these thirty thousand, ten
thousand perished last winter and ten thousand escaped or have been protected
by the Americans. The fate of the other ten thousand is not known. The
deportations are continuing; every week’s delay means deaths to hundreds of these
poor people. The Turkish policy is extermination of these Christian
minorities.”
Documentary Evidence that Turkish Officials Ordered the Atrocities.
Translated, it reads in part:
“To the Commandant of the Central Brigade: I call your attention to the
following: There is nothing but death for the Greeks, who are without honor. As
soon as the slightest sign is given you, destroy everything about you
immediately. As for the women, stop at nothing. Do not take either honor or
friendship into consideration when the moment of vengeance arrives!
- The Commandant of the Brigade, Mehmet Azit”

- Cited in Edward Hale Bierstadt, The Great Betrayal: A Survey of the Near
East Problem, New York, 1924.
“The Committee of Union and Progress made a clear decision. The source of the
problem in Western Anatolia would be removed, the Greeks would be cleared
out by means of political and economical measures. Before anything else, it
would be necessary to weaken and break the economically powerful Greeks.”

- Nurdogan Taçlan, Ege’de Kurtulus Savasi Baslarken (Istanbul, 1970), p. 65.
Quoted in Taner Akçam, A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the
Question of Turkish Responsibility, translated by Paul Bessemer (New York:
Metropolitan Books, 2006), p. 103.
“The Turkish reprisals against the west Anatolian Greeks became general in
the spring of 1914. Entire Greek communities were driven from their homes by
terrorism, their homes and land and often their moveable property were seized,
and individuals were killed in the process.”

- Arnold Toynbee, The Western Question in Greece and Turkey (Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1922), p. 140.
Armenian/Pontian Joint Recognition
Armenian National Committee of America
1711 N Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tel. (202) 775-1918
Fax. (202) 775-5648
Email anca@anca.org
Internet www.anca.org
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ANCA MARKS PONTIAN GREEK GENOCIDE REMEMBRANCE DAY
– Joins with Assyrian and Greek Communities in Seeking Justice for Turkey’s
Genocidal Crimes
May 19, 2007
WASHINGTON, DC - The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) joins with
Pontian Greeks — and all Hellenes around the world — in commemorating May
19th, the international day of remembrance for the genocide initiated by the
Ottoman Empire and continued by Kemalist Turkey against the historic Greek
population of Pontus along the southeastern coast of the Black Sea.
“We join with the Hellenic American community in solemn remembrance of the
Pontian Genocide, and in reaffirming our determination to work together with
all the victims of Turkey’s atrocities to secure full recognition and justice
for these crimes,” said Aram Hamparian, Executive Director of the ANCA.
The Ottoman Empire, under the cover of World War I, undertook a systematic
and deliberate effort to eliminate its minority Christian populations. This
genocidal campaign resulted in the death and deportation of well over 2,000,000
Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks.
The Pontian Genocide has been formally acknowledged by Greece and Cyprus and,
within the United States, by the states of New York, New Jersey, Florida,
South Carolina, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, among others.
Bibliography of Books on the Pontic and Anatolian Greek Genocides
Taner Akcam, From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian
Genocide. London: Zed Books, 2004, pp. 144-149.
George Andreadis, Tamama, The Missing Girl of Pontos. Athens: Gordios, 1993..

James Levi Barton, The Near East Relief, 1915-1930. New York: Russell Sage
Foundation, 1943.
Edward Hale Bierstadt, The Great Betrayal: A Survey of the Near East
Problem. New York: R. M. McBride & company, 1924.
Carl C. Compton, The Morning Cometh. New York: Karatzas Publisher, 1986.
Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City. New York,
NY: Newmark Press, 1998.
Constantinos Fotiadis (ed.), The Genocide of the Pontus Greeks by the Turks..
13 vols. Herodotus, 2004.
Bernard Grasset, Les Persécution Antihelléniques en Turquie Depuis le Début
de la Guerre Européenne. D’après les rapports officiels des agents
diplomatiques et consulaires. Paris, Librairie, 1918.
Thea Halo, Not Even My Name. New York: Picador USA, 2000.
Hofmann, Tessa, ed., Verfolgung, Vertreibung und Vernichtung der Christen im
Osmanischen Reich 1912-1922. Münster: LIT, 2004. (pp. 177-221 on Pontian
Greeks)
George Horton, The Blight of Asia: An Account of the Systematic
Extermination of Christian Populations by Mohammedans and of the Culpability of Certain
Great Powers; With a True Story of the Burning of Smyrna. Indianopolis:
Bobbs-Merrill, 1926.
Ioannis Karayinnides, The Golgotha of Pontos. Salonica, 1978.
Johannes Lepsius, Archives du genocide des Armeniens. Paris: Fayard, 1986.
Bernard Lewis, The Making of Modern Turkey. London: Oxford University Press,
1961.
Manchester League of Unredeemed Hellenes, Turkey’s Crimes: Hellenism in
Turkey. Manchester : Norbury, Natzio & Co., 1919.
J.A.R. Marriott, The Eastern Question: A Study in European Diplomacy.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940.
Manus I. Midlarsky, The Killing Trap. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2005.
Henry Morgenthau, Sr., The Murder of a Nation. New York: Armenian General
Benevolent Union of America, 1974 (1918).
Henry Morgenthau, Sr., Ambassador’s Morgenthau Story. Garden City, N.Y.:
Page & Company, 1918
Henry Morgenthau, Sr., I Was Sent to Athens. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday,
Doran & Co, 1929.
Henry Morgenthau, Sr., An International Drama. London: Jarrolds Ltd., 1930.
Jean De Murat. The Great Extirpation of Hellenism and Christianity in Asia
Minor: The Historic and Systematic Deception of World Opinion Concerning the
Hideous Christianity’s Uprooting of 1922. Miami, Fla.: [s.n.], (Athens
[Greece]: A. Triantafillis) 1999.
Lysimachos Oeconomos, The Martyrdom of Smyrna and Eastern Christendom: A
File of Overwhelming Evidence, Denouncing the Misdeeds of the Turks in Asia
Minor and Showing Their Responsibility for the Horrors of Smyrna. London: G.
Allen & Unwin, 1922.
Alexander Papadopoulos, Persecutions of the Greeks in Turkey before the
European War: On the Basis of Official Documents. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1919.
Ioannis Pavlides, Pages of History of Pontus and Asia Minor. Salonica,
Greece, 1980.
G.W. Rendel, “Memorandum by Mr. Rendel on Turkish Massacres and Persecutions
of Minorities since the Armistice.” British Foreign Office Report, 1922. FO
371/7876. X/PO9194.
R. J. Rummel, Statistics of Democide, Chapter 5, “Statistics of Turkey’s
Democide - Estimates, Calculations and Sources.”
S.J. and E.K. Shaw, History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Michael Llewellyn Smith, Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919-1922.
London: Allen Lane, 1973.
Dido Soteriou, Farewell Anatolia. Translated by Fred A. Reed. Athens:
Kedros, 1991.
Harry Tsirkinidis, At Last We Uprooted Them: The Genocide of Greeks of
Pontos, Thrace, and Asia Minor, through the French Archives. Thessaloniki:
Kyriakidis Bros, 1999.
C. Tsoukalas, The Greek Tragedy. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969.
Mark H. Ward, The Deportations in Asia Minor, 1921-1922. London:
Anglo-Hellenic League, 1922.

Please find a list of good books in English and French to add to Adam’s
list followed by a long list of books in Greek, then followed by books
about the Assyrians. Please keep in mind that many other books include
details about the Assyrians but those mentioned here are more
specifically about their genocide.

Best to all,
Thea Halo

Good additional French and English books on the Genocide of Greeks

1. Oecumenical Patriarchate (Orthodox Eastern Church), Persecution of
the Greeks in Turkey 1914-1918, Hesperia Press, London,1919.

2. L’extermination des Chretiens d’Orient: Faits, Documents et
Temoignages Anglais et Americain, Paris, 1922.

3. The Martyrdom of the Pontus and International public Opinion,
Hellenic League of Nations Union, Geneva, 1922. // Le Martyre du
Pont-Euxin et l’Opinion publique internationale, Ligue Hellenique pour
la Societe des Nations, Geneve, 1922.

4. Black Book: The Tragedy of Pontus 1914-1922, Edition of the Central
Council of Pontus, Athens, 1922. // Livre Noir: La Tragedie Du Pont
1914- 1922, Edition du Conseil Central du Pont, Athenes, 1922.

5. London Committee of Unredeemed Greeks, The anti-Hellenic
persecutions in Turkey: pictures of the atrocities committed against
the Greeks in Turkey during the early months of 1914, London Committee
of Unredeemed Greeks, London, 1919.

6. Les persecutions antihelleniques en Turquie depuis le debut de la
Guerre europeenne - D’apres les rapports officiels des agents
diplomatiques et consulaires, Grasset, 1918.

7. Oecumenical Patriarchate (Orthodox Eastern Church), The black book
of the sufferings of the Greek people in Turkey from the armistice to
the end of 1920, Patriarchate, Constantinople, 1920.

8. Les Atrocities Turques en Asia Mineure et dans le Pont, Athenes,
1922.

9. Les Atrocities Turques au Pont-Euxin, Dubois et Bauer, Paris, 1919.

10. Memorandum presented by the Greek members of the Turkish parliament
to the American Commission on Mandates over Turkey, American-Hellenic
Society, New York, 1919.

11. Oeconomos, Lysimachos, The Martyrdom of Smyrna and Eastern
Christendom, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1922.

12. Oeconomos, Lysimachos, The Tragedy of the Christian Near East, The
Anglo-Hellenic League, London, 1923.

13. Papadopoulos, Alexander, Persecutions of the Greeks in Turkey
before the European War, Oxford University Press American Branch, New
York, 1919.

14. Brown, Carroll N.; Ion, Theodore P., Persecutions of the Greeks in
Turkey since the Beginning of the European War, Oxford University Press
American Branch, New York, 1918.

15. King, William H., Turkish Atrocities in Asia Minor, United States
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1992.

16. Manchester League of Unredeemed Hellenes, Turkey’s crimes:
Hellenism in Turkey, Norbury Natzio & Co., Manchester, 1919.

17. Ward, Mark H., The Deportations in Asia Minor 1921-1922,
Anglo-Hellenic League & British Armenia Committee, London, 1922.

18. Puaux, Rene, La Mort de Smyrne, Edition de la revue des Balkans,
Paris, 1922.

19. Constantine G. Hatzidimitriou; Editor, American Accounts
Documenting the Destruction of Smyrna by the Kemalist Turkish Forces,
September 1922, Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher, New Rochelle, NY, 2005

20. 14 volumes of documents found in the archives of relevant
countries, compiled by Professor Constantinos Emm. Fotiadis, professor
of History at Aristotelian University in Greece. All volumes focus on
the Pontic Greeks, but also include documents that concern other Asia
Minor Greeks and the Armenians. Volume 13 is entitled: The Genocide of
the Pontus Greeks by the Turks: Archive documents of the Ministries of
Foreign Affairs of Greece, Britain, France, the League of Nations,
S.H.A.T Heodotus, Greece (2004).There is also some commentary and
analysis by Fotiadis. Some volumes are not yet translated into English.

Books in Greek on the Genocide of Greeks

Η αττική γη υποδέχεται τους πρόσφυγες του ‘22, Ίδρυμα
της Βουλής των
Ελλήνων για τον Κοινοβουλευτισμό και τη Δημοκρατία,
Αθήνα, 2006, ISBN:
9608928419.

Η Έξοδος, Κέντρο Μικρασιατικών Σπουδών, Αθήνα, 1980.

Η Έξοδος (Τόμος Β΄), Κέντρο Μικρασιατικών Σπουδών, Αθήνα
, 1982.

Η Σμύρνη καίγεται, Αθήνα, Ερμής, 1983.

Κοιτίδες Ελληνισμού – Ίμβρος -Τένεδος, Προποντίδα,
Χάλκη, Επτά Ημέρες,
Έκδοση Καθημερινής, Αθήνα, 1996.

Μαύρη Βίβλος Διωγμών και Μαρτυρίων του εν Τουρκιά
Ελληνισμού 1914-1918,
Οικουμενικό Πατριαρχείο, 1919.

Ο Ελληνισμός της Σμύρνης, Ένωσις Σμυρναίων, Αθήνα, 1997.

Ο Ξεριζωμός: η επεκτατική πολιτική της Τουρκίας και οι
διωγμοί των
ελλήνων από τους Τούρκους στον 20ό αιώνα, Ινστιτούτο
Ιστορικών Μελετών,
Αθήνα, 1972.

Αγτζίδης, Βλάσης, Ποντιακός Ελληνισμός - Aπό τη
γενοκτονία και το
σταλινισμό στην περεστρόικα, Εκδοτικός Οίκος Αδελφών
Κυριακίδη,
Θεσσαλονίκη, 1995, ISBN: 9603430005.

Αγτζίδης, Βλάσης, Έλληνες του Πόντου: η γενοκτονία από
τον Τουρκικό
εθνικισμό, Ελληνικές εκδόσεις, Αθήνα, 2005, ISBN: 9606639002.

Ανδρεάδης, Γεώργιος, Φουρτούνα ήταν… Η Γενοκτονία του
Ποντιακού
Ελληνισμού μέσα από τα απομνημονεύματα του παπά-
προδρόμου Ηλιάδη,
Ερωδιός, 2002, ISBN: 9607942531.

Αγγελομάτης, Χρήστος Εμ., Χρονικόν Μεγάλης Τραγωδίας -
Το Έπος της
Μικράς Ασίας, Βιβλιοπωλείον της Εστίας, Αθήνα, 1963.

Αρβανίτης, Δημήτριος Α., Εκστρατεία Μικράς Ασίας,
Αργύρης Βουρνάς,
Αθήνα, 2006, ISBN: 960746385X.

Αργυρού, Φανούλα, Γενοκτονία, Λευκωσία, 1998, ISBN:
9963769829.

Βακαλόπουλος, Κωνσταντίνος, Διωγμοί και Γενοκτονία του
Θρακικού
Ελληνισμού – Ο Πρώτος Ξεριζωμός (1908-1917), Ηρόδοτος,
Θεσσαλονίκη,
1998, ISBN: 9607280569.

Βαλβαζάνης, Μιχάλης, Πώς έζησα την καταστροφή της
Σμύρνης, Εκδόσεις
Κωστόγιαννος, 1998, ISBN: 9607181700.

Βαλαβάνης, Γεώργιος Κ., Σύγχρονος γενική ιστορία του
Πόντου, Αθήνα
,1925.

Βασιλείου, Βενετία, Γεννήθηκα στη Μικρασία, Εκδόσεις
Γραμμή, Αθήνα,
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Der internationale Anschluß der Akademiker für die Studie von Genoziden erkennt mit ihrer Auflösung den Genozid von Assyrion und Griechen.
Fanis Malkidis
Es ist wirklich unterschiedlicher Moment für den Weltakademiker, wissenschaftlich und erkundigend Gemeinschaft, die Auflösung der Anerkennung des Genozids von [Assyrion] und des Griechen in Abstand 1914-1923, zu dem Auflösung es führte, nachdem sie zwischen ihren Mitgliedern gewählt hatte, der internationale Anschluß der Akademiker für die Studie der Genozide (International Association of Genocide Scholars -IAGS).
Die Auflösung, die das 83% von Stimmen empfing, wird in der Praxis des Ottomanzustandes gegen die christlichen Minoritäten, Armenian, Assyrion (Chaldaion, Nestorianon berichtet, Syrians, Aramaioi, Iakobites, Orthodoxe syrisch), griechisches (Einwohner Ponts, Thraces, Ionon), das führte zu ihren Genozid gegen. In 1997 erkannte der internationale Anschluß der Akademiker für die Studie von Genoziden den Genozid, der armenisch sind und bis jetzt Tätigkeit der Mitglieder des Anschlußes, gezeigt, daß auch bestanden anderen Genoziden als die gleiche Anordnung. Assyrioi, stellte der Grieche ihre gleichen Methoden der Ausrottung, wie Massenimplementierungen, Kurse des Todes und Hunger gegenüber. Das Mitglied des internationalen Anschlußes der Akademiker für die Studie des Genozidprofessors der Universität von Geil Adam Jones stellte die Auflösung und mit Protagonist Thea Halo, Verfasser des Buches „noch meinem Namen“ auf, und gemeinsam mit Wissenschaftlern von der aller Welt, wurde die Auflösung annehmbar und gleichzeitig benannte die Türkei, um die Genozide zu erkennen, die sie festlegte. Die Auflösung erklärt auch, daß „die Ablehnung des Genozids weit als abschließendes Stadium des Genozids erkannt wird, das sich kümmert die um Straffreiheit für die Täter des Genozids und vorbereitet den Boden für die zukünftigen Genozide“.Vor dem Wählen, die umfangreichen verstärkenunterlagen über die Genozide von Assyrion und Griechen, die sie in den Mitgliedern IAGS in den Monaten verteilten und sind im Web site http://www.genocidetext.net/ iags_resolution_ supportingdocumentation.htm vorhanden.
Die überwältigende Unterstützung, die in der Auflösung durch das Führen in der Weltorganisation der Studie von Genoziden gegeben wurde, hilft im Wachstum der Welt Gewissenhaftigkeit für die Genozide von Assyrion und Grieche und es dient auch als wichtiges Werkzeug in der gegenwärtigen Türkei die noch ignoriert oder vollständig die Genozide der christlichen Minoritäten verweigert.
Fanis Malkidis unterrichtet in “Dimokriteio” Universität Thrace und ist regelmäßiges Mitglied des internationalen Anschlußes der Akademiker für die Studie von Genoziden.
DER KOMPLETTE TEXT DER AUFLÖSUNG VON IAGS:
SCHÄTZEND, DASS die Ablehnung des Genozids weit als abschließendes Stadium des Genozids erkannt wird, kümmert sich das um die Straffreiheit für die Täter des Genozids und bereitet die Gegend für die zukünftigen Genozide vor, die
DASS der Genozid gegen die christlichen Bevölkerungen durch den Ottomanzustand an der Dauer SCHÄTZEN und nachdem sein erster Weltkrieg normalerweise als Genozid gegen nur Armenian geschildert ist, mit teilweiser nur Anerkennung der qualitativ ähnlichen Genozide gegen andere christliche Minoritäten des Ottomanreiches, das,
SIE überzeugung des internationalen Anschlußes der Akademiker für die Studie der Genozide, denen die Ottomanexpedition gegen die christlichen Minoritäten des Reiches zwischen 1914 und 1923 einen Genozid gegen Armenian festsetzte, Assyrioys und des Griechen SIND. Der internationale Anschluß der Akademiker für die Studie von Genoziden fragt von der Regierung von der Türkei zwecks, das sie die Genozide gegen diese Bevölkerungen erkennt, zwecks es veröffentlicht eine amtliche Entschuldigung, und zwecks ergreift sie die schnellen.