Re: Pontian Genocide, Pontus is a region of the southern Black Sea shore, in modern-day Turkey, that was settled by Greek colonists during the Bronze Age (or earlier). The Turkish ethnic cleansing campaign of the 1910s-20s is best remembered for the Armenian genocide of 1915, but it actually started a few years earlier. After Turkey lost the first Balkan war, they decided to get all nationalistic and get rid of their non-Turkish minorities, including Greek-speaking communities that predated the upstart Turks by a few dozen centuries. The Pontians and others were chased out of their homes and into wastelands, where thousands died of hunger and exposure. Very Trail-of-Tears-y
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