Between 1914 and 1923, the Ottoman Empire and Kemalist forces systematically exterminated approximately 353,000 Pontian Greeks. Facing forced deportations, labor battalions, and death marches, Pontian Greeks formed resilient resistance networks, fighting courageously in the mountains to protect their families, villages, and culture from annihilation The post GREEK GENOCIDE: The Pontian Greeks who fought hard and bravely against Turkish genocide perpetrators appeared first on Greek City Times .