Nationality Greek Name Nikos Kapetanidis | Died 1921, Amasya, Turkey | |
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Born 1889 Rize, Turkey Occupation Journalist, newspaper publisher Religion Greek Orthodox Christianity | ||
Nikos Kapetanidis (Greek: Νίκος Καπετανίδης, 1889–1921) was a Greek journalist and newspaper publisher. He was one of the notable figures of Pontus region hanged by the Turkish nationalists of Mustafa Kemal.
Kapetanidis was born in Rize, in the Pontus region of the Ottoman Empire (in modern Turkey). He attended the Phrontisterion of Trapezous, a Greek middle level school in Trebizond. After graduation, he became one of the most prominent journalists and active members of the local Greek press. Kapetanidis also published his own newspaper Epochi (Season). He got also involved in educational issues, supporting the use of vernacular Greek in the local schools. Moreover, he insisted that education shouldn't be controlled by the religious authorities, in particular the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
Kapetanidis was hanged in Amasya, in September 1921, by the Turkish nationalists under Mustafa Kemal (later Ataturk) during the Pontic Greek Genocide. He was among several other notable figures of the local Greek community hanged there.