Title: Pontians ask Turkey to admit their genocide
Description: and are willing for scientific aproach
Description: and are willing for scientific aproach
Pytheas - May 18, 2005 12:33 AM (GMT)
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| Μήνυμα προς την Αγκυρα Επιστημονική επιτροπή για την τεκμηρίωση της Γενοκτονίας των Ποντίων  Ο πρόεδρος της ΠΟΕ ζήτησε από την Τουρκία να αναγνωρίσει τις γενοκτονίες Ποντίων και Αρμενίων Θεσσαλονίκη Στη σύσταση επιστημονικής επιτροπής τεκμηρίωσης και συγκρότησης του φακέλου της γενοκτονίας των Ποντίων προχωρά η Παμποντιακή Ομοσπονδία Ελλάδος (ΠΟΕ). Ο φάκελος θα σταλεί στην ελληνική κυβέρνηση, προκειμένου να προβεί στις δέουσες ενέργειες για τη διεθνοποίηση της γενοκτονίας των Ελλήνων του Πόντου. Την ανακοίνωση αυτή έκανε ο πρόεδρος της ΠΟΕ, Γιώργος Παρχαρίδης, κατά τη διάρκεια συνέντευξης Τύπου με αφορμή τη διοργάνωση, στις 19 Μαΐου στην πλατεία Αγίας Σοφίας στη Θεσσαλονίκη, μεγάλης εκδήλωσης, στη μνήμη των 353.000 θυμάτων της Γενοκτονίας των Ποντίων (1914-1923). Ο κ. Παρχαρίδης έστειλε μήνυμα ότι η Τουρκία δεν μπορεί να έχει ευρωπαϊκή προοπτική αν δεν αναγνωρίσει τις γενοκτονίες που έπραξε εις βάρος των Ποντίων και των Αρμενίων. Και προσέθεσε: «Εμείς είμαστε οι πρώτοι που επιθυμούμε τον εκδημοκρατισμό της γειτονικής χώρας και υποστηρίζουμε κάθε προσπάθεια στη δημιουργία καλών διακρατικών σχέσεων και φιλίας μεταξύ των λαών μας». Παράλληλα, επισήμανε ότι μέχρι η Τουρκία να αναλάβει τις ευθύνες της και να ζητήσει συγγνώμη για το ιστορικό έγκλημά της, η ΠΟΕ θα συνεχίσει να της το θυμίζει με τις μαχητικές πορείες και καταγγελίες που θα κάνει κάθε χρόνο προς το τούρκικο προξενείο. με πληροφορίες από ΜΠΕ |
:thumbsup: Well, what do ya say about that?
Pontians say that they are already building their scientific comittee, and they are ready for a talk that will lead turkey closer to EU, when they will admit the Genocides againdt Pontians Armenians (and Assyrians).
U-BOOT - May 18, 2005 10:45 AM (GMT)
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That the chances of international support are very slim due to the indifference shown till now.When you decide to raise internationally such issue after 100 years,you can expect a drop of your credibility from the outsiders.
Nikephoros - November 22, 2006 05:12 AM (GMT)
Has any Greek ever read the book Η γενοκτονία των Ελλήνων του Πόντου(The Genocide of the Greeks of Pontos) by Κωνσταντίνος Φωτιάδης?
Does anyone think they can scan some salient pages in so I can evaluate if it is worth buying? There are two versions of the book, one is a three volume work spanning over 2000 pages published by ΗΡΟΔΟΤΟΣ and a smaller one volume edition edition that is published by the Greek Parliament(ΒΟΥΛΗ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ). It is suppossed to rely on the foreign archives of many European governments.
Does anyone think they can scan some salient pages in so I can evaluate if it is worth buying? There are two versions of the book, one is a three volume work spanning over 2000 pages published by ΗΡΟΔΟΤΟΣ and a smaller one volume edition edition that is published by the Greek Parliament(ΒΟΥΛΗ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ). It is suppossed to rely on the foreign archives of many European governments.
GrkPontio85 - December 19, 2006 10:18 AM (GMT)
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| That the chances of international support are very slim due to the indifference shown till now.When you decide to raise internationally such issue after 100 years,you can expect a drop of your credibility from the outsiders. |
Very true, Pontians should have spoken out sooner like the Armenians did in order to be taken seriously. The city that I live in the United States has acknowledged the Pontian genocide, their going to build a monument soon. Steps have been taken by the Greek communities in the US to have powerful political leaders acknowledge the genocides but Armenian groups seem to get in the way, rather strange I think… :unsure:
Ariadne - December 26, 2006 11:58 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (GrkPontio85 @ Dec 19 2006, 12:18 PM) | ||
Very true, Pontians should have spoken out sooner like the Armenians did in order to be taken seriously. The city that I live in the United States has acknowledged the Pontian genocide, their going to build a monument soon. Steps have been taken by the Greek communities in the US to have powerful political leaders acknowledge the genocides but Armenian groups seem to get in the way, rather strange I think… :unsure: |
There are more armenians than there are pontian greeks, and pontians are a part of a grander scheme of hellenism. Not simply a nation unto themselves like the armenians. Also, when the surviving pontian greeks came from turkey into greece it was a bombardment of war, after war, after war. How could the pontians have had time to raise concern for what had happened to them as early as the armenians did?
As far as when concern was raised on behalf of the Pontian Greeks. It was raised when the events were happening by the major newspapers in the United States and beyond. The US Ambassador to Turkey at the time, wrote about the greeks in his book along side his descriptions of atrocites occuring to the armenians.
I have noticed however, that Greeks will support the armenians on their quest. But Armenians never seem to raise they're voices in defense of the Greeks... Odd considering the good relations between the two nations seem to have always been, even in antiquity, in a pleasant harmony. :doubt: