Greek Genocide Remembrance Day
Greek Genocide Remembrance Day is held on May 19. Greece. This event in the second decade of the month May is annual. 
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Official commemorative date since 1994, dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Pontic genocide by the Turks. The genocide of the Pontic Greeks is one of the darkest moments in Greek history, the deliberate physical destruction of the indigenous Greek population of historical Pontus, carried out by the Young Turk government and continued by the Kemalists during the period 1914-1923 in the Ottoman Empire. 326-382 thousand civilians were destroyed.
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