#TheGreekGenocideIsReal "Love is a Serious Mental Disease"

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#TheGreekGenocideIsReal

#TheGreekGenocideIsReal

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As a sign of remembrance and support please take to your social media accounts (Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook) and hashtag #TheGreekGenocideIsReal along with a quote by one of your favorite Greek philosophers.

In Greece, every year on May 19th we remember those Greeks who died at the hands of the Turkish Ottoman Empire during the start of World War 1. The Greek Genocide, also known as the Pontic Genocide, is one of the biggest examples of modern day ethnic cleansing with over an estimated 650,000 deaths.

Hellenic presence in Asia Minor dated back to 800BC with some of the most successful Greeks in the world living in what’s now Turkey. The slaughtering of my ancestors through death marches, mass murders, and other cruel forms of punishment was not recognized as a genocide in much of the world. More recently, The International Association of Genocide Scholars passed a resolution in 2007 recognizing the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities that took place in the early 1900’s as genocide. A hand full of other countries and organizations have done the same since then, however one very important one has not.

The United States of America does not recognize the acts by the Ottoman empire as genocide. During the Obama administration, there were talks of changing the US stance on the matter. The thought was quickly thrown under the rug. This violent act was referred to as part of the broader chaos that broke out in the wake of World War I. Turkey adamantly denies the genocides including Armenian and other Christian minority genocides connected to the Ottoman Empire during that time.

#TheGreekGenocideIsReal campaign is an effort to bring attention to the horrific actions by the Ottoman Empire on the Hellenic community.

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