AMERİKAN BASININDA PONTUS RUM PROPAGANDASI (1914-1921)
PONTUS GREEK PROPAGANDA IN THE U.S. PRESS

Summary/Abstract: Uprising movements in Balkans initiated by Christian elements and supported by Western Powers in XIX. century, thereafter influenced also Christian minorities in Anatolia and created the danger of new political structures to rise as in Baklans with the outbreak of the First World War. Greeks who dreamed of establishing a Pontus State in East Black Sea Region with the Pontus idea formed by Greece, Fener-Greek Patriarchate, metropolitan bishops and Greek schools, revolted against Ottoman State with armed groups with the support of Entate Powers. After the Armistice of Mudros, Pan-Pontian Greeks began political activities and carried their claims on the Eastern Black Sea coasts to the international arena during the Paris Conference. With the aim of creating a legitmate basis to these claims, also an intense propaganda activity run by Greeks and these activities were also given wide publicity in American press. As such, the statements of American missionarries, Greek reverends and the other pro-Greek people or groups who had been operating in the region, were published on American newspapers with striking headlines in order to influence the public. While the claims of the Greeks that they were massacred by Turks were reflected in U.S press, the news underlining Greeks’ existence in the region before Christ, also created a different perception about the region.

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