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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 7 February 2025)
TRT scrubbing her lyrics.
Turkish Radio & Television (TRT) has announced that it will
"investigate" whether or not the lyrics of the song that Greece's
representative to the upcoming "Eurovision Song Contest" will
sing there contain references to the "Pontus Greek Genocide" of
100+ years ago. TRT's announcement has set off a crisis in
Athens (!).
Klavdia Papadopolulu, the singer, said this in an interview she
gave to the Greek state TV network ERT : "I come from a family
with roots among the Pontus Greeks. My grandmother used to
tell us about how our family was uprooted and forced to migrate
to the Soviet Union. My parents came to Greece in 1991. This
song tells of uprooting and forced migration."
The singer, though, did not make any explicit references to the
claims of a "Pontus Greek Genocide" in the interview. The title
of the song she will sing at Eurovision, which will be held this
year in Basel, Switzerland, is "Asteromata", which means
"Stary Eyed". The word "Asteromata" is not in use anymore
but prior to the Turkish War of Independence it was used among
the Greeks in the Izmir region to refer to "women with beautiful
eyes that radiate light."
Map of the imagined Black Sea Pontus Republic.
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