PONTUS MESELESİ: GENEL BİR BAKIŞ

Abstract

Bu makale uluslararası kamuoyunda “Pontus Sorunu” olaraktanımlanan, Osmanlı Devleti’nin son yıllarında ve Milli Mücadeledöneminde Karadeniz bölgesinde yaşayan, imparatorluğun Rum tebaasınınayaklanmaları, bölgede yaşanan topluluklar arası çatşma ve son olarakRum tebaanın nüfus mübadelesi ile Yunanistan’a göç etmesi olaraközetlenebilecek sorunsalı tanımlamayı ve analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Buçerçevede sorunun tarihsel ve sosyo-kültürel arka planı incelenmekte vegünümüzde “Pontus soykırımı” iddialarının uluslararası kamuoyunungündemine nasıl ve ne amaçla getirildiği yorumlanmaktadır

Keywords

• Pontus Sorunu, Rum, Osmanlı Devleti, Yunanistan

THE PONTUS QUESTION: A GENERAL VIEW

Abstract

This article intends to analyze the problematic known by theinternational public opinion as “the Pontus Question,” which can besummarized as the uprisings of the Greek subjects living in the Black SeaRegion of the Ottoman Empire during the last years of the Empire and theTurkish National Struggle, the subsequent inter-communal clashes, and themigration of these Greek subjects to Greece with the population exchange.Within this framework, it examines the historical and socio-culturalbackground of this question and elaborates why and how it has nowadaysbeen presented to the international public opinion as “the Pontic Genocide”allegations

Keywords

• Pontus Question, Greek, Ottoman Empire, Greece, Population Exchange

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