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 gravely period, when the Cyprus issue had caused difficulties in the political relations of Greece, Turkey and England. It is considered that Hikmet Bill the owner of the Turkish journal Hurriyet and Ahmet Emin Yalmas the owner of Vatan received a large standard of money in order to create the political atmosphere of the pogrom from British sources. By July 1955, the Turkish press and some organizations such as TheCyprus is Turkish, the National Federation of Turkish Students and the National Union of Turkish Students form mass demonstrations against the Greek minority of Istanbul and the Ecumenical Patriarchate (Vryonis 2005). Nowadays, most Greeks and Turks argon unaware of the fact that on the night of kinsfolk 6, until the early hours of folk 7, 1955 the Adnan Menderes government and the Turkish Intelligence Service carried out the most soul-destroying pogrom in Europe since the well-known Kryst allnacht on the eve of the Second ball War. In addition, they do not know that this pogrom damaged, and in many cases destruct several accommodates, businesses, churches and institutions and that this had as a result, the elimination of the Greek minority, the oldest historical residential area of Turkey (Vryonis 2005). On the afternoon of September 6th 1955, a piano tuner station in Ankara reported that a bomb set off at a lower place mysterious circumstances in the courtyard of Kemal Atatrks house in Thessaloniki, causing minor damages. The reports did not produce any reply at first. However, a few hours later the Turkish journal Istanbul declaim circulated an extra edition. According to the newspaper, the birthplace of Kemal Atatrk in Thessaloniki had been bombed. ... ...were wilful violation of their worship (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 hundre ds of families from their birthplaces to Greece, threatening to come down the community as a whole. Additionally, a set out from the Greek minority the Pogrom of 6-7 September delivered a severe blow to Turkish economy. Street markets in Istanbul, which were under the control of Greek merchants, covering the basic needs of the citizens of the most inhabited city of Turkey. Therefore, the partial destruction brought about the impoverishment to the greater part of the Turkish population, leading to significant shortages of basic goods and a rapid origin in prices. The painful condition of Turkish economy would play a significant role in the issue of payment of compensation.