Pontic Greek genocide
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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
Amasya trials
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The 1921 Amasya trials were special ad hoc trials, organized by the Turkish National Movement, with the purpose to kill en masse the Greek representatives of Pontus region under a legal pretext. They
The town of Amasya, in the interior of the Black Sea coast, where the trials and the executions took place.
A number of the soccer players of Pontus Merzifounta (pictured) were sentenced and hanged, without concrete evidence of anti-Turkish activity: Turkish nationalists felt offended because the team's jersey displayed the colours of the Greek flag (blue-white).