Every May 19, the collective conscience of Hellenism groans -not from forgotten pain, but from a memory that burns bright, stubborn, and unrelenting. The Pontic Genocide is no mere historical footnote. It is a scar etched into the nation's flesh, a cry that pierces time, demanding Justice, Truth, and Recognition. From 1914 to 1923, over 353,000 Pontic Greek Christians were annihilated by Kemalist and Ottoman forces through massacres, death marches, enslavement, and deportations. This was no chaotic byproduct of war but a systematic, orchestrated campaign to erase a people who had thrived for millennia along the Black Sea coast. The Pontic Greeks, bearers of culture, philosophy, education, and faith, were targeted not just for extermination but for oblivion. May 19 [19 May 1919], the day Mustafa Kemal landed in Samsun to launch his "national struggle," is seared into history as a day of remembrance and testimony. It stands as the dark...