The Autonomous Hellenic Republic of Pontus • A Historical Perspective
On January 8, 1918 President Woodrow Wilson presented his ‘Fourteen Points’ to a joint session of the United States Congress. President Wilson’s ‘Fourteen Points’ was a blueprint designed to convince the Germans to cease World War I hostilities and that leniency would be assured in the subsequent peace treaties, thus bringing an end to the Great War. The decaying Ottoman Empire had sided with Germany and the Central Powers during WWI and Wilson’s Point Twelve addressed the Ottomans’ fate:
XII. The Turkish portion of the present Ottoman Empire should...
