Turkey must admit its huge crime against the Pontian Greeks during the period of 1914-1923, and should express the need for forgiveness and regret, as all peoples who admit their crimes, so that the there will be more peacefulness and optimism in the future, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said on Sunday, speaking after the unveiling of a monument in Nicosia district, in memory of the Pontian Greeks.
Kasoulides referred to the need for the world to always remember what happened and to restore the memory of all Pontian Greeks who were unfairly lost during that dark period of the history together with the Armenians and the Assyrians. He noted that as long as Turkey does not admit its crimes, there is still bitterness and recalled that other peoples have done so, as the Germans, who admitted crimes committed by the Nazis.
“What is keeping Turkey from admitting this crime, when the whole world, parliaments, have denounced it?”, he wondered.
