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Greek PM chides Turkey for not recognizing Ottoman genocide against Greek Christians

Dec 9, 2019 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Given Erdogan’s dream of reviving the Ottoman caliphate, and its increasing bellicosity in the Mediterranean, this is not simply a matter of historical interest.

“Greek PM chides Turkey for genocide against Christians,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, December 8, 2019:

ATHENS – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced Friday the need for international recognition of the Ottoman-era genocide of Greek Christians in Asia Minor, and slammed Turkey for its bellicosity in its maritime foreign policy in Mediterranean.

Mitsotakis delivered his talk at the International Conference on the Crime of Genocide, declaring that the “Ottoman Empire carried out the genocide of Pontian [Greeks]” and “how we shall learn from it, how we shall prevent the reliving of similar tragedies in our own lives, anywhere in the world.”

The prime minister blasted Ankara for its current foreign policy that, he said, is ignoring international law on the high seas.

“Turkey has engaged in aggressiveness” and is “creating new maps that make the Islands of Greece disappear,” said Mitsotakis….

The Pontian Greeks lived in the region of Pontus, on coast of the Black Sea and in the Pontic Mountains of northern Anatolia in Turkey. The Ottomans and the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, launched a campaign of genocide against the Pontian during World War I until the founding of the Turkish Republic in 1923. The racist and anti-Christian ideology of “Turkey for the Turks” animated the genocide. The murder toll between 1914 and 1922 may be as high as 1.5 million Greek Christians.

Hami Aksoy, a Turkish foreign ministry spokesman, termed the conference a “propaganda event” on Saturday: “We reject the statements of the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis delivered at the ‘International Conference on the Crime of Genocide’ held in Athens on 6 December 2019. His statements concerning our past and present are devoid of any base and its hostile tone is laden with lies and slander.”

Mitsotakis said he wants to stand by the Greeks of Pontian descent and “internationalize the commitment” to the organization’s goals. The exposure of the genocide of Greek Christians must lead to “results that will arm the modern world to avoid experiencing such brutality again. This will be a heritage for all of humanity, not just Pontian Hellenism.”

The conference featured prominent Israeli speakers, including the historians Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi who discussed their book, The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924.

The Israeli psychoanalyst and expert on genocide, Israel Charny, was slated to speak on Sunday with a talk titled, “A worldwide campaign for life: Respect, protect life.”

In a panel on “A direct consequence of unaccounted genocide: The culture in the Turkish political system,” Turkish academic Cengiz Aktar spoke about his experience in Turkey in the early 1970s and the lack of intellectual works on the Armenian genocide. He said he would only later learn about the Armenian genocide in France.

Georgios Varythimiadis, the president of the Pan-Pontian Federation of Greece, said “for Greece, the cradle of civilization and democracy, there can be no hesitation and doubt. The descendants of the ones that survived the Genocide crime in a unified front: Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians, we give the good fight for the international recognition of the genocide against the Christian populations of Asia Minor by the Ottomans and Neo-Turks.”

“Our fight is not just about historical experience,” he added. “Whoever believes that we deal with stories of the far past is wrong. Recent events confirm the need of empowering our fight. Only through the recognition of the Christian populations’ genocide by the Ottoman Empire we can achieve peace in the tormented East Mediterranean. When the perpetrator remains unpunished and pursues the oblivion and silence of his genocidal past, he indirectly states his will to repeat the crime.”

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Filed Under: Featured, Greece, Greek Genocide, Turkey Tagged With: Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Recep Tayyip Erdogan


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  1. CogitoErgoSum says

    Dec 9, 2019 at 2:22 pm

    You would think the Turks would be proud of their genocide against the Christians. It’s only what Isa is predicted to do when he returns and abolishes the Jizya and then kills every last living Christian and Jew who refuses to accept Islam as the only allowable religion on Earth … (and yes, Isa will rid the Earth of every last pig also).

    • Michael Copeland says

      Dec 9, 2019 at 2:49 pm

      “A banner in the southwest province of Mugla reads,
      ‘We celebrate the 100th anniversary of our country being cleared of Armenians.
      We are proud of our glorious ancestors. –Young Atsizs.’
      (Atsizs refers to Nihal Atsiz, a leading ideologue of Turkish racism and a proponent of Turanism).

      http://asbarez.com/132103/anti-armenian-banners-celebrating-genocide-displayed-in-turkey/

      • Rev G says

        Dec 9, 2019 at 3:15 pm

        Interesting side note, that man’s name could be written as N.Atsiz.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 9, 2019 at 4:55 pm

        Thank you, Michael.

        The Turks *are* proud of this slaughter–it just isn’t politic for them to admit this to the Infidel world now.

        It’s like Holocaust denies who say the Holocaust never happened, yet threaten to finish the job Hitler started.

    • Infidel says

      Dec 9, 2019 at 5:37 pm

      CES, the Turks are proud of their genocide of Christians. What Prime Minister Mitsotakis is asking/expecting is that they admit their guilt and express regret for that part of their history. But that’s the thing Turkey is not gonna do. Kemalist Turkey, one can argue, was embarrassed about it and did what it could to sweep it under the rug. Erdoganesque Turkey is proud of that and is not gonna apologize to anyone, particularly the Greeks

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 9, 2019 at 5:40 pm

        Generally true, Infidel. But even Ataturk did not stop the Armenian Genocide–it continued under him until the terrible destruction of Smyrna.

        • Infidel says

          Dec 10, 2019 at 6:17 pm

          Gravenimage, I wasn’t implying that Kemalist Turkey was ashamed of what Ataturk did: I was implying that they were embarrassed about that fact being a usable political football against them. But the current Turkey just willfully denies it, and confronts its critics for being Islamophobic for daring to raise this issue in the first place

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 10, 2019 at 9:59 pm

          I don’t think Turkey is embarrassed–they are *enraged* that Infidels would say anything critical of Islam.

  2. Spiro says

    Dec 9, 2019 at 5:03 pm

    They refuse to accept responsibility for the murder of Armenians so why would the accept it for the murder of the Greeks
    Islam is evil and the enlightened west needs to wake up to that fact
    Or is that possible ?

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 9, 2019 at 5:24 pm

      Yes–the Armenian Genocide targeted Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and Levantines–really, *all* Christians in Turkey and surrounding regions.

  3. Infidel says

    Dec 9, 2019 at 5:41 pm

    Prime Minister Mitsotakis is being naive if he thinks that what he tells Erdogan ain’t falling on deaf ears. What Greece ought to do is strengthen its navy and air force, and arm itself to the teeth. Anytime anything Turkish comes even close to violating Greek sovereignty, it should be instantly sunk, and any protests from Ankara ignored.

    Only issue is Turkey’s NATO membership, so Athens should try and have an alliance w/ Moscow. Also, they should tell NATO that the organization can have Turkey or it can have Greece, but it can’t have both.

    • Gerard39 says

      Dec 11, 2019 at 3:14 am

      Greece is not Russsia.
      In an older German TV Report(no bullshit channel)they sayed Russia shoot and kill Turkish Fishers that fished in the Black Sea on the Russian side,Turkey did nothing.
      I even cant find anything on the internet about it.So Turkey was quiet about it…

      Greece had only 10 Million people,Turkey 80 Millione.Also Greece is poor.They cant fight against turkey.
      But its a shame that the EU dont do nothing.The same goes for Cyprus.Turkey has invaded the half for some decades.EU do nothing.

  4. Crusades Were Right says

    Dec 9, 2019 at 5:48 pm

    Greece and Turkey are – supposedly – allies, since they are both members of NATO. With an “ally” like Turkey, who needs enemies? lol

    • Infidel says

      Dec 9, 2019 at 6:20 pm

      Precisely! Which is why I just suggested above that Greece tell NATO that they won’t be a part of the same club as Turkey.

      In fact, coming to think of it, that’s a great idea. If Greece allies w/ Moscow, that keeps Putin from getting too close to Erdogan, and despite any pandering to Muslims that he may have done, Moscow does prefer their Eastern Orthodox brethren, such as the Serbs and the Greeks, to the Turks, who have historically been their enemies both during the Romanov/Ottoman era as well as during the Cold War. So let that happen, and after that, let Turkey get kicked out of NATO, or NATO itself dissolve. Then Turkey will hopefully have no non-Muslim allies, and can then focus on their allies, like Qatar, Pakistan and so on

  5. JIMA says

    Dec 9, 2019 at 8:03 pm

    You all should read “The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities” by Benny Morris. It just came out and it’s a long read, but God have mercy, it has to be read. It’s only been a little over a hundred years and we forgot. The EVIL of the turks didn’t stop, from 1874 to present, it’s been the same thing over and over. Honestly, everyone should read that book. I would hope that Mr. Spencer agrees and I wonder what his opinion is on the book if he’s had the chance to read it.

  6. KWJ says

    Dec 9, 2019 at 9:50 pm

    To this day, what remaining Greek churches are left in Turkey, are often vandalized and Erdogan repeatedly disrespects the Hagia Sophia. It’s a theme in many predominantly Muslim countries. An Uzbek doctor told me that where he grew up in Uzbekistan there used to be a large Greek community. I asked what happened and he “They pushed them out.” “Why?” I asked. He replied because “They didn’t like their religion.”

    Same with Muslims in Iran pushing Zoroastrians out of their towns. Ethiopia is the latest problem. I think we can safely say that Islam is a blight in the world, especially for the 21st century where you would think Muslims would grow up and be beyond religious animosity, but that just makes them dig in their heels because they refuse to acknowledge the truth…god forbid that it would hurt their maladjusted pride!

    • Infidel says

      Dec 9, 2019 at 10:10 pm

      I thought that Zoroastrians were already gone from Iran: they were barely an asterisk in that country’s population, being fewer in number than even Christians, Bahais and Jews. The only country, aside from India, that has a handful of them is Tajikistan, which seems to cherish both its Islamic and pre-Islamic Iranian heritage

    • underbed cat says

      Dec 10, 2019 at 10:43 am

      Obama visited the historic Hagia Sophia Christian church, the stunning achitecture captured by Islam and turned into a mosque,
      the round Islamic Arabic disk hung to cover the artistic symbols of Christians, half removed still visible….a genocidal war to capture. The Greek Primes Minister has to wonder how long will Greece be Greece as he speaks to a man seeking to restore and grow the first Ottoman Empire, he will never get Erdoghan to admit the history of Christian, Jewish genocide, it is not in his nature or in the nature of sharia law ,unless he claims muslims were also victims… but never of their own aggressive Islamic wars. Prime Minister of Greece, brave man.

      • Linde Barrera says

        Dec 10, 2019 at 11:30 am

        To underbed cat- I agree with you 100%.

  7. John Acord says

    Dec 10, 2019 at 4:34 am

    Finally, after so many years the Greek and Armenian genocides are finally being revealed and debated.Is there specific resources that can be easily found for greater study?

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 10, 2019 at 10:04 pm

      Two very good books are “The Burning Tigris” by Peter Balakian and “Paradise Lost: Smyrna, 1922” by Giles Milton. The first book, especially, gives a fine overview of this horrifying, decades-long atrocity.

  8. Marigold says

    Dec 10, 2019 at 6:23 am

    One would think the MSM would be interested in this issue considering there is a large Greek population in Australia especially in Melbourne. Silly me ! I forgot for a minute that Melbourne is also one of the most left wing cities in Australia and that it has already had a few terrorist attacks.

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