The idea that Pontus would have become an independent state, was brought up to the
surface not many years after the Great War. This idea was also, mentioned by the Armenians. During the last decade of the 20th century and up until the first and the
second Balkan Wars, we could say that Pontus was a somehow neutral place. After the movement of Young Turks, which took the leadership from sultan Abdul Hamit II, things took another route. Besides all the other adversities that came along the Young Turks movement (such as the heavy taxations or the violence that was been held against the Pontic people), the worst was the enlistment in the army, which was leading to the labor battalions (Amele Taburlari). Death was imminent. On the other hand, despite those facts there was many Pontic people that lived a part or all of their lives in regions outside of Pontus. Some of those people include Archimandrite Panaretos Topalidis, and Chrysanthos, the Metropolitan of Trebizond (1913-1923). They were the root of the idea, of a self-determined Pontic state.
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