Genocide of the Pontian Greeks

Not Even My Name is the unforgettable story of Sano Halo's survival of the
death march at age 10 that annihilated her family as told to her daughter, Thea and
the poignant mother/ daughter pilgrimage to Turkey in search of Sano's home 70 years after her exile. Sano, a Pontic Greek from a mountain village near the Black Sea, also recounts her ancient, pastoral way of life in the Pontic Mountians.

The dreadful realization that something was amiss came little by little to Sano's village. Strangers began to inhabit the fields and forests, always watching from a distance like birds of prey. Turkish soldiers made periodic raids to seize men for slave labor in foul, lice-infested labor camps, where most died of disease, malnutrition and exposure. Then in the spring of 1920, Turkish soldiers pounded on doors with the butts of their rifles and shouted General Mustafa Kemal's (Ataturk) proclamation: "You are to leave this place. You are to take with you only what you can carry " On their death march, victims lay where they fell and buzzards hung above their heads. So ended the 3,000 year history of the Pontic Greeks in Turkey.

Stripped of everything she had ever held dear, even her name, at age 15 Sano was sold into marriage to a man who brought her to America. He was three times her age.
Not Even My Name follows Sano's marriage, the raising of her ten children, and her
transformation from an innocent girl who lived an ancient way of life in a remote place, to a nurturing mother and determined woman in twentieth-century New York City.

Thi photo came from the US National Geographic. So if you have any question from whom, where and what those appeared in the picture they will responce you.

As about the  attrocities Greece (not genocide) as Democratic nation  accepted and recognized as you said in the Lausagne Treaty.If happened any kind of genocide why turkish side never mention this in the Treauty ?

What about your nation.Why deny something that happened and recognized from many non-Greek sourses ?

And I am talking only for the Pontian Genocide and not the armenian according the AE forum rules.

Greek Genocide?  Bring it up to the UN, or the EU, we'll see what happens then.(or is this claim supported by enough documents to be brought up?)

Or has this subject already been brought up?

(so many "brought up" 's)

For the Greek speakers only, here is an "interesting" site regarding the Pontians ... no offense intended!

http://www.geocities.com/pontos10/index.html

Disclaimer: Greek nationalist beware that the site may contain offensive material to your ego, and if you believe you are too proud to handle it, please kindly refrain from visiting. The author takes no liabiltiy for any damage that can be incurred on your national ego.

Originally posted by Leonidas Good work akritas and Spartakus, i hope this thread's ok when i get back I want to contribute to.

Leonidas the investigation of genocide of Pontian Greeks   from the Young Turks and Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) arrangement constituted a question taboo for the Greek historical and political science. The Greek-Turkish pact of friendship 1930, the simultaneous integration of Greece and Turkey in the NATO in 1952, but also simultaneously the called approach of two states, constituted points stations and for the Pontian question. They are these parameters that the Genocide of Hellenism of Pontos did not acquire the compurgation that it was imposed it acquires .

But when the Turkish PM ask from the Greeks to stop mention this issue because "disturb" he thinks that talk in his political  partie funs!!!

On one side because the political climate did not allow is investigated the crime of mass murders of against Greeks, on the other side when this became after initiative of scientists and intellectual as minimal debt against the collective memory, faced a very hostile environment.

Greek Parliament publishes the book of professor Konstantinos Fotiadis, which argued the murders of 353000 Greeks in the Pontos the interval 1916-1923.The book is separated in 13 chapters which cover the history of Greeks of Pontos, the ethnological situation in the region, the Ottoman reforms and the Young Turks arrangement, that was turned against the Greeks program of Mustafa Kemal arrangement for the crimes in the Pontos. The book includes primary sources, the result of research of writer in government and owned files of former USSR, France, Germany, Great Britain, Austria, Italy, Vatican, Society of Nations and Greece, while is mentioned also rich bibliography in Greek and other languages.

But the image that you give is an image of Armenian deportations and it is presented as such by many Armenian sources. Shall I suppose then that the people on theimage are then both Pontian and Armenian. What does the national geographic article say?

I hope maybe Mamikon or ArmenianSurvival can clear this up, because I really do not have the time to search through Armenian webpages now but I am quite sure i have seen that same image there.