On the assignment or non-assignment of rights over Pontus and Asia Minor

Let us take as a general principle that no one hurts another’s place more than his own. And let’s take it for granted that a crime was committed in the previous century that remains unpunished even today.

And just as children are sometimes bullied so that they don’t misbehave, Greece as a bad stepmother, as Myrophora Efstathiadou aptly called her, has been keeping us for a century under a constant feeling of threat and terror of an attack from Turkey, while she herself Greece is constantly scratching the surface to maintain these conditions.I don’t know about you, but in the half century that God has given me, I live under a constant threat of Greek-Turkish war. Now it doesn’t even touch me, it has become part of my everyday life. I will wake up in the morning, drink coffee, accept threats of a Turkish attack on Greece, cook lunch, etc.

One would say that this climate is maintained to keep the descendants of the refugees from Asia Minor and the Pontus in hypnosis until this attrıbute of theirs is no longer of any importance at all due to complete assimilation and the weakening of descent through intermarriage.

The state of accomplished gentility in which Eleftherios Venizelos brought us in collaboration with his friend Mustafa Kemal could only be characterized as treacherous by all of us if we take off the mask of Greek nationalism that they put on us.

Especially if we come face to face with his so successful statement regarding his special homeland of Crete, we will be able to perceive the difference better, I believe:

As one of the three hundred thousand Cretans, I do not assign you my right, so that you alone can regulate the national policy of my land as you want. Eleftherios Venizelos

He who did not assign his right as one of the three hundred thousand Cretans to have someone else regulate the national politics of his country, considered himself worthy of carrying out the greatest crime ever committed in Anatolia and Pontus without anyone having given him the right. Not even the Turks themselves managed to destroy Anatolia and the Pontus so much during so many centuries of Turkish rule.

As the sellout that we saw Eleftherios Venizelos sign with the Treaty of Sevres, which the textbooks call Greece’s greatest diplomatic victory, was not enough for us (and a dozen Trabzonian teachers were not found to burn the books in front of the ministry as a sign of protest) they had to repeat the sell-out with the Treaty of Lausanne to empty all of Asia Minor and the Pontus of its native Rum inhabitants and drag them into an adventure that decimated the population.

One would say that Venizelos killed more Christians by signing the People Exchange than the Turks in 500 years of slavery. The number of people who died in the Exchange is huge. And the properties of the deceased were assigned to the Greek state of course. He had a profit to say the least.

And he didn’t even pay attention to the Anatolian and Pontic refugee rallies. Because there were shouts and protests and rallies but they weren’t Cretans obviously, so he didn’t pay attention to them.

For, it seems, only the Cretans do not grant the right for others to voluntarily regulate the national politics of their land. For all other common mortals others decide, preferably Cretans.