Armenian parliament pays tribute to victims of Pontic Greek genocide
19.05.2016,
17:14
Armenian MPs at a meeting on Friday observed a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the Genocide of Pontic Greeks.
YEREVAN, May 19. /ARKA/. Armenian MPs at a meeting on Friday observed a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the Genocide of Pontic Greeks.
"Pontic Greeks remember today their victims who were killed in 1915-1923 by the government of the Ottoman Empire. The Armenian parliament last year adopted a resolution on the recognition and condemnation of the Genocide of the Greeks and Assyrians in Ottoman Turkey," National Assembly speaker Galust Sahakyan said, inviting colleagues to honor their memory with a minute of silence.
The Greek genocide, part of which is known as the Pontic genocide, was the systematic ethnic cleansing of the Christian Ottoman Greek population from its historic homeland in Asia Minor, central Anatolia, Pontus, and the former Russian Caucasus province of Kars during World War and its aftermath (1919–23).
It was instigated by the government of the Ottoman Empire against the Greek population of the Empire and included massacres, forced deportations involving death marches, arbitrary executions, and destruction of Christian Orthodox cultural, historical and religious monuments.
According to various estimates, from 350,000 to 1.2 million ethnic Greeks were killed by Turks in 1915-1923. -0-
"Pontic Greeks remember today their victims who were killed in 1915-1923 by the government of the Ottoman Empire. The Armenian parliament last year adopted a resolution on the recognition and condemnation of the Genocide of the Greeks and Assyrians in Ottoman Turkey," National Assembly speaker Galust Sahakyan said, inviting colleagues to honor their memory with a minute of silence.
The Greek genocide, part of which is known as the Pontic genocide, was the systematic ethnic cleansing of the Christian Ottoman Greek population from its historic homeland in Asia Minor, central Anatolia, Pontus, and the former Russian Caucasus province of Kars during World War and its aftermath (1919–23).
It was instigated by the government of the Ottoman Empire against the Greek population of the Empire and included massacres, forced deportations involving death marches, arbitrary executions, and destruction of Christian Orthodox cultural, historical and religious monuments.
According to various estimates, from 350,000 to 1.2 million ethnic Greeks were killed by Turks in 1915-1923. -0-
