FW: 6-9 September 1955. The anniversary of th barbaric vandalism progrom and genocide against the Greeks of Constantinople by the Turkish regime.

 

 

From: MPILLHS EURIPIDIS [mailto:eurigr@otenet.gr]
Sent: 06 September, 2011 7:33 PM
To: MPILLHS EURIPIDIS
Subject: FW: 6-9 September 1955. The anniversary of th barbaric vandalism progrom and genocide against the Greeks of Constantinople by the Turkish regime.

 

Honorable Members of the European Parliament,

 

Today on September 6,  we have the anniversary of the  barbaric vandalism  progrom  and genocide done in 1955 by the Turkish regime, against the Greeks of Constantinople (where they live for thousands of years). The aim of this genocide was to force the Greeks of Constantinople to leave the place where they lived for thousands of years. At last this was completed in 1964.

Please see the attached.

Sincerely yours

Euripides Billis

Ex-Assistant Professor National Technical University of Athens

 

Brief Summary

On this date in 1955 began the organized  and guided by the Turkish government  barbaric vandalism  progrom  and genocide against the Greeks of Constantinople, in response to a identifiable since then provocation in the family home of Mustafa Kemal in Thessaloniki. A  bomb which was placed there by Turks bursted and its fragments  achieved their goal against the Greeks of Constantinople.

 

The Turkish mob which amounted to tens of thousands of people, moved with military discipline, against  the Greeks of Constantinople.

Within about nine hours (because in many places the vandalism continued after the declaration of martial law after midnight) were completely destroyed:

1004 houses and about 2500 others suffered extensive damage.
4348 also damaged shops
27 pharmacies
26 schools
5 cultural organizations, facilities
3 newspapers
12 hotels
11 clinics
21 factories
110 bakeries and restaurants,
73 churches,
and pillaged so many tombs in 2 cemeteries
and the tombs of the patriarchs in the monastery Valoukli.

It is worth noting that assault and received a small number of Armenian and Jewish property, some Armenian churches and a Jewish synagogue.

At least 30 Greeks were killed and hundreds of others were tortured brutally. In about two thousand calculated from the cycles of the Diaspora as rape, although only 200 officially reported, for obvious reasons.

Special hatred was shown against  the clergy, as many of them were beaten savagery, and other were laid bare  and pilloried and forced to shout: "Cyprus is Turkish", while there is evidence that a deacon was forced to circumcision. Bishop Gerasimos Pamfilon and the old monk Chrysanthos Mantas were beaten to death, while the Archbishop Gennadius Ilioupoleos became insane by  the beatings and shortly after died.