On October 20, 1949, Sofia Anastasiadis carefully recorded what refugee Yiannis P. Vasiliadis, from Telmisos in Cappadocia, had to say to her.
Vassiliadis passed through Samsouda and served in the Caucasus. There, his eyes saw much. However, one piece of information he provides about the Kurds contradicts other sources and the view that many scholars of the Pontic Genocide and Asia Minor have about the role of the Kurds in general.
As the informant says, “the Kurds saved many Christians” during this period.