The Extermination of Pontic Greeks was a Genocide

The Extermination of Pontic Greeks was a Genocide

The Pontic genocide was an organized plan to eliminate the indigenous Greek population. Credit: Public Domain Greece marks May 19th as Pontic Genocide Remembrance Day, to honor the memory of approximately 353,000 Pontian Greeks exterminated by the New Turks and the Ottoman Empire between 1916 and 1923. In one of the darkest chapters in Greece’s long history, the Pontic Genocide included an organized plan to eliminate the indigenous Greek populat…