Center for Eurasian Studies (AVİM)
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A GREEK PONTUS TV DRAMA MAKES MOCKERY OF HISTORICAL FACTS -Teoman Ertugrul Tulun - 31.08.2020
6 minutes Posted Nov 6, 2020 at 5:25 pm.
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A Greek diaspora online media based in Australia has recently published a  news item regarding the Greek dramatic TV series named “To Kokkino  Potami” (Red River) which is said to have been broadcasted in Greek Open  TV channel from October 6, 2019 to July 13, 2020 in 32 episodes.  According to mentioned news item, the said historic romantic drama  series is “based on the homonymous novel by Haris Tsirkinidis detailing  the real events surrounding the Greek Pontian genocide”, and  “follows  the real-life story of a young couple from Pontos, a then  Greek-populated region on the southern coast of the Black Sea during the  19th century.” As per the TV series’ director Manousos Manousakis, “One  of the main aims of this series, is for the Greek Pontian genocide to  be globally recognized and not just for our satisfaction and for the  feeling of fairness as Greeks, but because a crime that is not punished  historically keeps on getting repeated”...