The Turkish Pogrom of 1955 and the Elimination of the Greek Minority of

The Reconstitution of Turkish Pogrom The chronology of the pogrom falls in a hard period, when the Cyprus issue had caused difficulties in the policy-making relations of Greece, Turkey and England. It is considered that Hikmet Bill the proprietor of the Turkish journal Hurriyet and Ahmet Emin Yalmas the owner of Vatan received a large amount of money in lay to create the political atmosphere of the pogrom from British sources. By July 1955, the Turkish bundle and some organizations such as TheCyprus is Turkish, the National Federation of Turkish Students and the National Union of Turkish Students organized mass demonstrations against the classic nonage of Istanbul and the Ecumenical Patriarchate (Vryonis 2005). Nowadays, most Greeks and Turks are unaware of the fact that on the night of September 6, until the early hours of September 7, 1955 the Adnan Menderes government and the Turkish wisdom Service carried out the most destructive pogrom in Europe since the well-known Kryst allnacht on the eve of the Second World War. In addition, they do non know that this pogrom damaged, and in many cases destroyed several houses, businesses, churches and institutions and that this had as a result, the elimination of the Greek forgivableity, the oldest historical community of Turkey (Vryonis 2005). On the good afternoon of September 6th 1955, a radio station in capital of Turkey reported that a bomb exploded under mysterious flock in the courtyard of Kemal Atatrks house in Thessaloniki, causing minor damages. The reports did not produce any reaction at first. However, a fewer hours later the Turkish journal Istanbul Express circulated an extra edition. According to the newspaper, the provenience of Kemal Atatrk in Thessaloniki had been bombed. ... ...were wilful violation of their religion (Vryonis 2005). In spite of this, the Greek minority of Istanbul was still possessed by an intense sense of insecurity, which has as a result, the flee of hundreds of familie s from their birthplaces to Greece, threatening to diminish the community as a whole. Additionally, apart from the Greek minority the Pogrom of 6-7 September delivered a severe blast to Turkish economy. Street markets in Istanbul, which were under the control of Greek merchants, application program the basic needs of the citizens of the most populous city of Turkey. Therefore, the partial ending brought about the impoverishment to the greater part of the Turkish population, leading to strong shortages of basic goods and a rapid rise in prices. The painful originator of Turkish economy would play a significant role in the issue of payment of compensation.