For Immediate Release – April 6, 2014
A hundred years ago, our ancestors were forced to endure the
20th century’s first Holocaust, alongside Ottoman Armenians and
Assyrians. Masterminded by Otto Liman Von Sanders and the Ittihadist Ottoman
Government, the Ottoman Greek Genocide saw the extermination of Thracians,
Bithynians, Ionians, Cappadocians and Pontians. April 6th, or as it
was referred to in 1914 “Black Easter” commemorates the deportations and
massacres that initiated in Thrace, and later spread to Asia Minor and Pontos.
This often forgotten phase of the Ottoman Greek Genocide is commonly referred
to by Thracians as ‘the Genocide of Thracian Hellenism’.
