Greek Genocide

Turkey's Foreign Ministry has condemned the statements made by Greek politicians on the occasion of the anniversary of the Pontic genocide, the massacre of ethnic Greeks by the Turks during World War I and the subsequent Greek-Turkish war.

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis condemned the near lynching of a 29-year-old Sunday school teacher in Thessaloniki after the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the start of the Pontian genoicide even as he announced that his party has petitioned the UN to recognise, the genocide.

A 29-year-old man was in the hospital on Monday after being knifed in central Thessaloniki on Sunday night during an event in the northern city commemorating the Pontic genocide, the systematic killing of ethnic Greeks by the Turks during World War I.

The attackers are believed to belong to anti-establishment groups.

The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) will present the one-off "Ahmet Cemal First Translation Award" in honor of the esteemed author and translator Ahmet Cemal who passed away on Aug. 1, 2017. 

Thessaloniki mayor Yannis Boutaris on Monday described those who attacked him during an event on Saturday commemorating the massacre of Pontian Greeks by Turks during World War I as "organized fascists." 

Boutaris was briefly hospitalized after being thrown to the ground, kicked and punched by about 12 people.

The lynch mob attack on Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris during a gathering to commemorate the Pontic genocide - the systematic killing of ethnic Greeks by the Turks during World War I - and while the national anthem was playing in the background, should give us pause.

Greek police said Sunday they were close to identifying one of the suspects involved in the attack against the mayor of Thessaloniki, in northern Greece.

So far evidence, based on footage of Saturday's incident, suggests that the suspect belongs to the country's far right movement.

A city official says the mayor of Greece's second-largest city has been hospitalized with head, back and leg injuries after being set upon by nationalist extremists.

A famous Australian journalist of Armenian and Greek origin, George Donikian, who was one of the founding members of the Australia’s first multicultural television station, SBS, made an emotional plea in video to the Australian government to recognise the Armenian and Pontic Greek genocides that took place between 1915 and 1922 by the crumbling Ottoman empire and a nationalist group called “The

The historical memory of the Pontian Genocide remains alive, Greek PM Alexis Tsipras tweeted on occasion of National Memorial Day on May 19, for the ethnic cleansing of nearly 300,000 Pontian Greeks in the aftermath of the first World War between 1914-1923. “May 19 is a day of remembrance and respect to the Greeks of Pontos.