A valid historical work on the regime of the Young Turks, the Balkan Wars, the expulsion from Asia Minor, the persecutions of Armenians and Greeks, the issue of the Pontians, the Great Idea, the Treaties of Sèvres and Lausanne, and Greek-Turkish relations up to the present day.
Western European scholars are familiar with Greek antiquity, have read quite a bit about the Byzantine Empire, and know about the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 by the Ottomans. However, there is a huge gap between that period and 1821, when the Greek Revolution against the Ottoman Empire began—a revolution that ended in 1832 with the establishment of the Modern Greek State.
Moreover, another veil covers the period that followed. Almost no one in Europe knows that during World War I, the Turks committed genocide not only against the Armenians but also against the Greeks. It is also unknown that after the end of the war, in 1919, another genocide took place—that of the Pontian Greeks, which was inextricably linked to the events that occurred in Asia Minor.
