Amasya trials

Amasya trials
Amasya trials
Location	Pontus, Ottoman empire
Date	1921
Target	Prominent members of the Pontiac Greek community
Attack type	Genocidal massacre, genocide
Motive	Turkification of Pontus, Turkish nationalism, racism, Anti-Greek sentiment

The town of Amasya, in the interior of the Black Sea coast, where the trials and the executions took place.
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Amasya trials
Location Pontus, Ottoman empire
Date 1921
Target Prominent members of the Pontiac Greek community
Attack type
Genocidal massacre, genocide
Motive Turkification of Pontus, Turkish nationalism, racism, Anti-Greek sentiment

The Amasya trials in 1921, were special ad hoc trials, organized by the Turkish National Movement, with the purpose to kill en masse the Greek representatives of Pontus region under a legal pretext.^[1] They occurred in Amasya, modern Turkey, during the final stage of the Pontic Greek genocide.^[1] The total number of the executed individuals is estimated to be ca. 400-450, among them 155 prominent Pontic Greeks.^[2]

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