Sake

[Sake @Sakechia]

@JulianAdrat Bleibt das heute noch da?

[Julian Adrat @JulianAdrat]

Und nachdem uns die Polizei vor der Britischen Botschaft bat, das Gedenken für Henry Nowak gleich abzuräumen, weil sie es sonst entsorgen würden, es hat es vor dem Brandenburger Tor nochmal einen sogar besseren Platz gefunden, der auch über Nacht noch unangetastet blieb und für Tausende zu sehen war. RIP Henry Nowak. 🙏🙏🙏Möge Gott dich fest in seinen Armen halten.

[Zoomer @ZoomerHistorian]

‘I don’t think they are mate’

[Australischer Austauschstudent @VceOfReason]

Zahl der Geschlechter

540 Mio. v. Chr.: 2
300 Mio. v. Chr.: 2
100 Mio. v. Chr.: 2
1 Mio. v. Chr.: 2
500.000 v. Chr.: 2
100.000 v. Chr.: 2
50.000 v. Chr.: 2
2.000 n. Chr.: immer noch 2
In den letzten 6 Jahren: 73

Wir sind nicht queer und divers, sondern einfach degeneriert.

[Sake @Sakechia]

@prolifefrenchie The Turkish flag is one to focus on as well!

[Sake @Sakechia]

@FranceskAlbs Go fuck yourself

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Olivier Giroud: "I pray that the love of Jesus touches all the french people"

[Ictinus ®️ @ictinus_x]

@Civixplorer An occupied Christian city.

[Natania Marshall ✞ @NataniaMarshall]

“Don’t push your religion on me”

Sincerely, the ones shoving pride month down your throat.

[PAOK FC @PAOK_FC]

29η Μαΐου 1453.

Η Πόλη έπεσε, μα το φως της δεν έσβησε. Στην αιωνιότητα της ιστορίας, η Κωνσταντινούπολη έγινε σύμβολο και η μνήμη της οδηγός.

Κρατάμε άσβεστη τη μνήμη, την περηφάνια μας, την ταυτότητά μας.

[Sake @Sakechia]

@harmlesstree2 @Dani_Blek You mean like Christian lands and people have been violently islamized for 1400 years?

[Sake @Sakechia]

@Dani_Blek 10/10 answer!

[ECR Group @ecrgroup]

"They were our grandparents. And they could have been yours."

Our member @e_fragkos pays his respects to the victims of the Pontic Greek Genocide.

Their memory deserves fuller European recognition. #EPlenary

[Greece in Israel @GreeceInTelAviv]

19 May, Day of Remembrance of the Genocide of the Pontic Greeks.
We do not forget the systematic extermination of 353,000 Pontic Greeks, who had lived for three millennia on the shores of the Black Sea.
#PonticGenocide #greece #greeceinisrael

[e-Αmyna @e_amyna]

19 Μαΐου, ημέρα μνήμης της Ποντιακής Γενοκτονίας.
Τίποτα δεν ξεχνιέται.
(Εύσημα για το συνταρακτικό σκίτσο στον @CPapanikos)

[Shay Gal שי גל @ShayGal84]

19 May is not only a Greek day of mourning.

It is the day Ankara’s map is put on trial.

Pontus was not a footnote. Smyrna was not erased by Izmir. Trebizond still breathes beneath Trabzon. Amisos beneath Samsun. Kerasous beneath Giresun. Kotyora beneath Ordu. Amasia beneath Amasya. Constantinople beneath Istanbul.

These names are not nostalgia.

They are evidence.

This is the obscenity of 19 May.

Turkey marks it as the beginning of Atatürk’s national struggle. Pontus remembers it as its death certificate.

But the deeper crime is not the calendar.

It is the myth.

To give birth to a nation claiming Turanian purity, Ankara had to erase the Anatolia that proved otherwise.

The state did not only kill “outsiders”.

It devoured the peoples that constituted its society.

Greek Anatolia.
Armenian Anatolia.
Assyrian Anatolia.
Kurdish Anatolia.
Laz, Georgian, Circassian, Jewish and Arab Anatolia.
The witnesses had to disappear because they unmasked the fraud.
A place name is an archive. A surname is a confession. A family silence outlives a state archive.
Ankara did not only rename cities.
Then it renamed people.
Grandmothers became rumours.
Grandfathers became omissions.
Churches became trophies.
Languages became kitchen whispers.
Villages became coordinates under Turkish signs.

Pan-Turanism is the lie: take language, add arrows, graft ancestry, erase the converted, the absorbed, the murdered, the renamed and the unnameable, then call the result destiny.

That is why Pontus matters.

It was not only a victim.
It was evidence.
And evidence had to be destroyed.

The Greek Genocide was not only the murder of Pontic Greeks. It was the destruction of a civilisation: Pontus, Ionia, Cappadocia, Eastern Thrace, Smyrna.
The method was simple: kill the people, empty the villages, seize the churches, silence the schools, take the houses, rename the map, then accuse the dead of provocation.
This is why Ankara still panics when the old names return.
A name reopens the file.
A name breaks the alibi.

And there is something darker still.

Modern Turkey was not born from a sanitised Central Asian myth. Anatolia was Greek, Armenian, Assyrian, Kurdish, Laz, Georgian, Circassian, Jewish and Arab before Ankara compressed it into one state orthodoxy.

Many citizens of today’s Turkey carry the ancestry, surnames, family silences and converted memories of the very peoples the state tried to erase.

That is why this was also historical cannibalism.
A state ate its own past, then called the digestion nation-building.

Armenians.
Assyrians.
Greeks of Pontus and Asia Minor.
Smyrna in flames.
The emptied villages.
The renamed cities.
The churches turned into trophies.
The archives locked, mocked and denied.

This is not a tragedy Turkey inherited.

It is Ankara’s catalogue of crimes against humanity.

And the catalogue did not close in 1923.

It returned in Cyprus in 1974, when invasion became occupation.

It returned against the Kurds as policy: destroyed villages, forced displacement, emergency rule and the outlawing of Kurdishness.

The lesson is not hatred.

The lesson is unauthorised memory.

Because Hitler understood the usefulness of forgotten crimes. The line attributed to him before the invasion of Poland still burns through history:

“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

We speak.
For every erased name.
For every people Ankara tried to bury under a new signpost.
We do not remember for the dead.
We remember for the living, and for those who would repeat their crimes if the world teaches them that amnesia is impunity and memory can be murdered too.

[Prime Minister GR @PrimeministerGR]

Με αφορμή την Ημέρα Μνήμης για τη Γενοκτονία των Ελλήνων του Πόντου, ανατρέχουμε με συγκίνηση σε ένα από τα πιο τραγικά κεφάλαια της σύγχρονης ιστορίας: τη συστηματική εξόντωση 353.000 συμπατριωτών μας. https://t.co/hNluda3Fpb