And the 15th of August came and the 15th of August passed and a service was not held at Panagia Soumela in Trabzon for the first time since 2010.
Before you rush to blame Turkey and the temeteron Erdoğan, it would be good to think about what the Pontic lobby did to cause the interrupt of the 14-year-long liturgy by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at Panagia Sumela of Trebizond and now they are crying and protesting like an innocent virgin while they did their bullshits to be honest.
Why the Pontic lobby, one month before the celebration of the fifteenth of August, when all Pontians are waiting for a live broadcast of the patriarchal liturgy from our Motherland Pontus while we are in exile of Greece for over of 100 years, they involved the Pontic youth with the halloumi of Cyprus which is completely foreign to us?
Wasn’t our destruction in the previous century due to Greek Nationalism enough? What exactly does the Pontian lobby finally want? And whose lobby is it in the end? because it only harms the Pontians to tell the truth.
I have reached the point where the agenda of the Pontic lobby no longer concerns me, neither the personalities that make it up, nor their followers. Because this agenda of the Pontic lobby has become a sponge for Greek Nationalism and the interests of the Greek government. Crooked, lame in Agios Panteleimonas as the folk wisdom use to say.
The stateless will save every downtrodden of the earth.
After all, this is what we have been doing for a century, fighting to save other people’s land from our exile. Only our own homeland was imposed on us to forget, and to be content with the 2 lines of Pontic Genocide recognition in order to make them a frame on our wall.
The fact that we are alive and in fact more than a century ago we don’t even mention it, we have stuck in the genocide and the memorials. This is our limit when we’re not dancing around statues in Greek squares.
Well done to Erdogan for his intervention. I support him. For the rest, halloumi is offered to get the poison down. Because as the wise people say, whoever jumps a lot of hoops gets one in his ass.
At some point the Pontic lobby will have to decide whose people’s interests it serves and if nothing else, to use different name to not harm the Pontic people.