Pontic Genocide

During a recent speech in the Canadian Senate, Greek-Canadian Senator Leo Housakos addressed his colleagues in efforts to bring to vote the need for Canada to recognize the Genocide of the Pontic Greeks from 1916 to 1923 by Turkey. Most...

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos' calls for Ankara to offer a "sincere apology" for the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Pontic Greeks on the shores of the Black Sea almost a century ago met with the censure of the...

Turkey’s foreign ministry reacted angrily to the statements made by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan during the latter’s official visit to Athens on Tuesday, saying they are “obsessive and one-sided.” In a...

The "I am more leftist than thou" game between Greek cabinet members continues as new Education Minister Nikos Filis tries to outdo his predecessor in refusing the importance of the Pontic Genocide. There is no other reason to explain Filis'...

The Greek government is under fire for its attitude toward the Pontic Genocide after the Education Minister's comments were followed by revelations that high school students in Greece are no longer being taught about the genocide. New Democracy MP Miltiadis Varvitsiotis...

Greece's Education Minister Nikos Filis is under relentless fire by opposition MPs and the whole Pontic population after expressing the opinion that the slaughtering of 350,000 Pontian Greeks by the Turkish army was not a genocide. When asked about the...

Greece's Education Minister Nikos Filis rejected the notion that the slaughter of Pontian Greeks by the Turks was a genocide. The leftist minister appeared on Star television late on Monday night in an interview and debate with the audience. Specifically, Filis...

Various events took place in Athens during the week of May 5, 2014, in memory of the Greek Pontic genocide by the Ottoman Empire under Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal during World War I. The aftermath during 1914–1923, claimed aproximately...

In 1994, May 19 was selected by the Greek parliament as the day to commemorate the Pontian Greek Genocide by the Turks. The Pontic Genocide is one of the darkest moments in history not only for Greeks, but...