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AHEPA Requests President Biden to Recognize the Greek Genocide
The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (Order of AHEPA) sent a formal request to President Joseph Biden, Jr., asking for the United States government to recognize the Greek Genocide. In a June 7 letter, Supreme…
Acknowledge The Pontian Genocide Now, AHEPA Supreme President George Horiatis
Upper Darby, PA – “It is time for President Biden to acknowledge the Pontian Genocide Now! We ask this to be done today. Not tomorrow, not next month, not next year,” said AHEPA Supreme President…
Remembering the Greek Genocide
Between 1913-1922 Ottoman authorities and the Turkish National movement led by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk embarked on a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing targeting the Christian minorities of the former Ottoman Empire. These minorities included Assyrians,…
AHEPA Lauds President Biden’s Recognition of Armenian Genocide
Supreme President George G. Horiates has issued the following statement: In a victory for human rights today, AHEPA lauds President Joe Biden’s statement that the campaign of extermination of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman authorities…
Primary Sources, And Their Power: The Greek Genocide In American Naval War Diaries
Savvas Koktzoglou is a retired mechanical engineer, a Greek American from Chicago, Illinois. He is a native of Drama, in Greece’s province of Macedonia, a child of Pontic Greeks from the Black Sea who settled…
Akritai Host Pontian Genocide Ceremony
The Pontian Society “Akritai of Philadelphia” hosted the annual Genocide ceremony yesterday in front of St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Upper Darby. Church parishioners and members of the organization gathered to commemorate the loss…
Pontian Genocide Remembrance Day
Upper Darby, PA – Since 2012, the Greek-American community of Philadelphia has been commemorating the Pontian Genocide Remembrance Day at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church. This year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this event, like…
AHEPA Applauds Passage of Armenian Genocide Resolution in the U.S. Senate
Washington, DC – In a victory for human rights yesterday, AHEPA applauds the U.S. Senate’s passage by Unanimous Consent of S.Res.150, a resolution to affirm the United States Record on the Armenian Genocide, announced Supreme…
Pontian Genocide Remembrance Day Proclamation Presented By Upper Darby Twp
Subscribe to our YouTube Channel Upper Darby, PA – Members Carry Mossaides and Effie Pavlidou-Economou of the Pontian Akritai of Philadelphia received a proclamation from Upper Darby Twp Mayor Thomas N. Micozzie. The proclamation was…
Armenians And Greeks Commemorate Pontian Genocide At 79th Annual Dance
Upper Darby, PA – “Long Live the brotherhood between Armenians and Greeks,” said singer Kevork Artinian. Artinian was the featured singer with the Steve Vosbikian Ensemble that performed at the Pontian “Akritai” annual dance. The…
Akritai Host Annual Pontian Genocide Service
Upper Darby, PA – The Pontian “Akritai” of Philadelphia hosted the annual Genocide memorial service yesterday, at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church. The commemoration started with a memorial service during the church liturgy service. It…
Petition launched to include all Greeks in genocide recognitions
By Aris Tsilfidis Over the past few decades, Greeks have made numerous attempts to recognize the genocide of native Greeks living in Ottoman Turkey between 1914-1923. More often than not, these recognitions have been assigned…
