Pogroms in Constantinople, Western Armenia currently occupied by Turkey – September 6-7 1955

On the night of September 6-7, 1955, the last major pogrom took place in Istanbul, during which members of the Greek and Armenian minorities who survived the genocides of the first half of the 20th century suffered.

The Turkish press spread the news that the house where Ataturk was born was blown up in Thessaloniki (the Turkish embassy was located there).

Later it turned out that the explosion was organized by a Turkish terrorist watchman who brought three bombs from Turkey (two of them worked, one did not, there was no one in the building at the time of the explosion, so no one was injured). Obviously, the sabotage in Thessaloniki was required to organize pogroms and cleansing Turkish cities from the “remnants of the sword” (as in Turkey they call the “deficits” who managed to save from genocides).

A crowd gathered in occupied Istanbul’s (Constantinople) Taksim Square – furious and excited by the news from Thessaloniki. According to their tradition, the wrath of the Turks fell on the Greek and Armenian communities. The police didn’t interfere but watched.

The army entered occupied (Constantinople) Istanbul only in the morning, when everything was over. In addition to Istanbul, pogroms took place in other major cities, including Ankara and Izmir. The areas “cleared” of the Greeks and Armenians were soon settled by the Turks.

What is remarkable – at the time of the massacre , both Turkey and Greece were already members of NATO.