The surprised woman asked: “what do you mean by that?” - Trabzon and the wider region was historically home to Greek Orthodox Christians
Trabzon
Tevfik Göksu was referring to the Pontic Greeks who traditionally lived in the region of Pontus until they were ethnically cleansed by Turkey before the 1923 population exchange
He ran a unifying and conciliatory campaign against his opponent backed by Erdogan
If it had stopped any further along the slope, the plane would have likely plunged into the Black Sea