Academic quotes on the Pontic Greek Genocide

Following is an incomplete list of academic quotes on to the Pontic Greek [...]. Historians and academics worldwide use a variety of terms for describing the events. Before the coining of the term "[...]", primary sources used to improvise terms, such as "annihilation", "systematic extermination", or "persistent campaign of massacre" and "wholesale massacre". Today, the events are described on a par with the Armenian [...], as a similar phenomenon to the Holocaust, as "ethnic cleansing", and as "[...]". Other historians choose milder terminology, such as "organized [...] and deportation", and "carefully planned atrocities [aimed at their] complete destruction". Mark Levene, suggests that historians tend to avoid the term [...] to describe the events, possibly in an attempt to PReVENT their magnification by comparison with those of 1915-16 (Armenian [...]).

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Historian Niall Ferguson, puts the Pontic Greek [...] on a par with the Armenian [...].

Samuel Totten and Steven L. Jacobs state in their work "Pioneers of [...] Studies":

One begins with (attempted) comprehension of the motives, intent, scale, implementation, and operation of the Holocaust. To understand it is necessary to look at similar phenomena, and so one attempts an unravelling of the Armenian, Pontian Greek, Rwandan, Burundian, and Aboriginal experiences.

Mark Levene in his Creating a Modern "Zone of [...]": The Impact of Nation- and State-Formation on Eastern Anatolia, 1878-1923, suggests that:

In the last hundred years, four Eastern Anatolian groups—Armenians, Kurds, Assyrians, and Greeks—have fallen victim to state-sponsored attempts by the Ottoman authorities or their Turkish or Iraqi successors to eradicate them"..."By ridding themselves of the Armenians, Greeks, or any other group that stood in their way, Turkish nationalists were attempting to prove how they could clarify, purify, and ultimately unify a polity and society so that it could succeed on its own, albeit Western-orientated terms. This, of course, was the ultimate paradox: the CUP committed [...] in order to transform the residual empire into a streamlined, homogeneous nation-state on the European model..." Unlike the Armenian case, in each of these other instances the scope, scale and intensity of the killings was limited, though this does not rule out comparison...'' The persistence of [...] or near-genocidal incidents from the 1890s through the 1990s, committed by Ottoman and successor Turkish and Iraqi states against Armenian, Kurdish, Assyrian, and Pontic Greek communities in Eastern Anatolia, is striking. ... I have concentrated here [on the genocidal sequence affecting Armenians and Kurds only], though my approach would be pertinent to the Pontic Greek and Assyrian cases.

Mark Levene, in his "[...] in the age of the nation state", states: "Not each and every one of these events in itself constitutes a policy of extirpation... Compared to what happened to the Armenians in 1915, these other events were smaller scale, ultimately somewhat less systematic, and less total not only for the victim groups involved but also for their implications for the dominant state"

Norman M. Naimark, describes the events as "ethnic cleansing" in his book Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe.

Benjamin David Lieberman, in his "Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe", states:

For CUP's leaders, attacking the country's Greeks was a means to purify the core regions of Turkey. Talaat Pasha made clear that this was his intent ... As the war continued, the Turkish campaign against the Greek civilians expanded to include the Pontic Greeks who lived on the Black Sea. The road to persecution here was quite similar to that elsewhere on the war's eastern fronts. Military threats and setbacks - in this case defeats by Russia - convinced Turkey's leaders to begin a campaign against a civilian population accused of treason ... Subject to state-sponsored terror despite their status as Ottoman subjects, during World War I Turkey's Greeks experienced persecution just short of full-scale ethnic cleansing.

Charles King, in his The Black Sea: A History states:

... the massacre of Armenians and other Christians in eastern Anatolia in the 1890s; ...and then the organized [...] and

  deportation of Armenians, Greeks, and others in the Ottoman empire from 1915 to the early 1920s.

Harry Psomiades, professor emeritus of political science at Queens College the City University of New York, refers to these events as the [...] "of the 275,000 Pontian souls who where slaughtered outright or were victims of the 'white death' of disease and starvation - a result of the routine process of deportations, slave labor, and the killings and death marches."

Constantine Fotiades, professor of Modern Greek History at the University of Western Macedonia, Greece chronicles the events of the [...] from 1916 to 1923 in his 16 volume work "[...] of the Greeks of Pontus". His research is based on documents from primary sources, e.g., international organizations, immigrant unions and newspapers, but most importantly from the government files of the former Soviet Union, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, the United Kingdom, the Vatican, the Society of Nations, and Greece, published both in translation and in their original languages.

Seminars and courses in western universities still examine the events.