The Greek Genocide, known as the Pontic Genocide, took place in 1915. After a military conflict that deprived the Ottoman Empire of most of its remaining territory in Europe known as the Balkan Wars; the Ottoman Empire’s defeat in the war caused a nationalist group who would go by the name of “young turks” to take over the Ottoman government, young turks were a group of three Turkish males Enver, Talaat, and Sakir. They all had the same visions for the Ottoman Empire and that was the elimination ethnic groups such as the Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontian Greeks.These were all victims and aimed by the Turkish who targeted underprivileged Christians of the Ottoman Empire.The Greek population that was highly attacked were from Pontus, Cappadocia,
