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International Crimes and History

Date of Publication: 2009

Author: Mustafa Serdar PALABIYIK - Yıldız DEVECİ BOZKUŞ

This article intends to analyze the problematic known by the international public opinion as “the Pontus Question,” which can be summarized as the uprisings of the Greek subjects living in the Black Sea Region of the Ottoman Empire during the last years of the Empire and the Turkish National Struggle, the subsequent inter-communal clashes, and the migration of these Greek subjects to Greece with the population exchange. Within this framework, it examines the historical and socio-cultural background of this question and elaborates why and how it has nowadays been presented to the international public opinion as “the Pontic Genocide” allegations.

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