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THREAD: Today we commemorate the Greek Genocide victims of Pontus, killed by Ottoman & Kemalist forces. 1 million Greeks were massacred - 353,000 of them from Pontus alone.
We will never forget even if Turkey continues to deny it.
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#GreekGenocide
We will never forget even if Turkey continues to deny it.
#PontosSoykırımıAnmaGünü
#GreekGenocide
1) Mustafa Kemal, Turkey's founding father, said on 13 August 1923 in the Turkish Grand National Assembly (Turkiye Buyuk Millet Meclisi) in Ankara, that:
"At last we've uprooted the Greeks..."
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"At last we've uprooted the Greeks..."
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2) On 26 November 1916 Rafet Bey (or Paşa) informs Dr. Ernst von Kwiatkowski, the Austro-Hungarian consul in Samsoun in Pontus:
"We must at last do with the Greeks as we did with the Armenians..."
#PontosSoykırımıAnmaGünü
#GreekGenocide
"We must at last do with the Greeks as we did with the Armenians..."
#PontosSoykırımıAnmaGünü
#GreekGenocide
