Pogrom in Istanbul

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Pogrom in Istanbul - pogrom September 6-7, 1955 directed against Christian (especially Greek and Armenian) and Jewish cities of Istanbul and other cities of Turkey.

The reasons for the pogrom were primarily two overlapping factors: growing Turkish nationalism (in this period closely linked to Adnan Menderes' policy, whose far-reaching goal was to remain a unified, Islamic and Turkish state), and having a long tradition of Greco-Turkish dislocation, in this period in the conflict about the status of Cyprus.

According to Greek sources, 4.5 thousand Greek dwellings, 3,500 Greek businesses, 90 religious buildings and 36 schools in 45 towns were destroyed and destroyed. The number of fatalities ranged from 11 to 15 according to different sources. The authorities have practically not intervened.

As a result of the pogrom (and the circumstances that triggered it), the emigration wave of the Greek and Jewish population from Turkey was intensified. In 1960, the Turkish army overturned the government of Adnan Menderes, and he was accused of to incite hatred against the Greek minority and lose a year later.

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