Nikos Kapetanidis
Nikos Kapetanidis 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. 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. 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 September 1921 in Amasya during the Pontic Greek Genocide. Turkish nationalists serving under Mustafa Kemal, later called Atatürk, executed him. He was among several notable Greeks killed as a result of the Amasya trials.
