Amasya trials

The town of Amasya, in the interior of the Black Sea coast, where the trials and the executions took place.

The Amasya trials in 1921, were special ad hoc trials, organized by the Turkish National Movement, with the purpose to kill en masse the Greek representatives of Pontus region under a legal pretext.^[1] They occurred in Amasya, modern Turkey, during the final stage of the Pontic Greek genocide.^[1] The total number of the executed individuals is estimated to be ca. 400-450, among them 155 prominent Pontic Greeks.^[2]

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