Talk:Pontian Greeks

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You should read Omer Asan's book "Pontos Kültürü" (1996) (Greek translation: "O politismos tou Pontou"). Asan is from the Of region (close to Trabzon), his - internationally acclaimed - book was first banned and he was prosecuted, but then acquitted, I think, in 2003. The number he gives is 300'000 speakers of Pontian Greek. Click here for an interview with the author. Simela 3 February 2006

I'll try to translate the French article "Pontiques" which includes more information on Pontic Greeks. I'm surprised the English one is so poor. The German article is more complete about the pre-1900 period, the French one over the XXth century. The whole Ömer Asan's episode is also really important to understand the (slow and not unanimous) change of mentalities in Turkey about this non-Turkish past. --Pylambert 22:56, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Assyrians - a christian minority?!?

This can be red in the text... ahhh... Are you sure 'bout that? Bomac 22:47, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

It is not clear to me what is wrong with that. You were changing it to Albanians, most of whom are not Christians, as far as I know. Since the sentence is referenced to Hoffman, our article should probably stick to whatever that text actually says, regardless. Jkelly 23:41, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Huh????

Where is the discussion regarding Pontic Greeks? I come to the discussion thinking this has to do with merging and cleaning up the Pontian Greeks articles and most of the discussion is about Turkish Cypriots and Albanians. Did I miss something? Simela and Pylambert are the only ones who brought up some interesting material pertaining to the subject at hand. Anyways regards and very confused. :( ~ Mallaccaos, 12 May, 2006

Ah, sorry about that. Removed. —Khoikhoi 05:31, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

BTW, I'm going to go ahead and merge the material from Pontic Greeks is no one objects. —Khoikhoi 05:33, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Or should it be the other way around? It seems that "Pontic Greeks" gets more Google hits than "Pontian Greeks". In that case I should move Pontian Greek Genocide to Pontic Greek Genocide. —Khoikhoi 05:37, 13 May 2006 (UTC)