Member of South Australian Parliament, Tom Koutsantonis, is the target of a silencing campaign orchestrated by the Turkish Embassy in the Australian capital of Canberra, Greek City Times reports.
The Turkish Embassy to Australia described the “so-called Greek Genocide” as a “grave distortion of historical facts.”
The newspaper states that the Greek Genocide, perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and the Young Turks, saw the extermination of not only up to a million Greeks, but also 1.5 million Armenians and at least half a million Assyrians between 1913 and 1923.
Although Turkey continues to insistently deny genocide, it has complete academic consensus, with the International Association of Genocide Scholars saying in a 2007 resolution that: “the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide against Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks.”
