The Pontic Greek genocide, or the Pontic genocide, was the deliberate and systematic destruction of the indigenous Greek community in the Pontus region in the Ottoman Empire during World War I and its
A temporary pavilion in Syntagma Square, Athens, commemorating the Pontic genocide
Massacred Greeks in Giresun region, 1921
1924 statute of the Athens-based Brotherhood of the Fighters for Pontus
The Young Turks were a broad opposition movement in the late Ottoman Empire to the absolutist régime of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The prominent organisation within the movement was the Committee of Union
Pontic Greek genocide
…movements and conflicts in the empire. The Young Turk Revolution greatly affected the Pontic Greeks living in Anatolia. One of the political goals of the Young Turk movement was to "Turkify" the Ottoman Empire. Their goal was to unite the Turkish people through religion, history and culture. Ottoman officials feared…
Young Turks who attended the congress held in Paris under the chairmanship of Prince Sabahattin between 4–9 February 1902
Before the Ottoman opposition congress, which was held in the house of Germain Antoin Lefevre-Pontalis [fr; sv] a member of the Institut de France, on 4 February 1902, and was closed to the public, with the participation of 47 delegates the Young Turk Committee
Young Turks flyer with the slogan Long live the fatherland, long live the nation, long live liberty written in Ottoman Turkish and French
Young Turk (CUP) Committee in 1909