When I was in Istanbul this past winter I saw a trailer for a movie about the Istanbul Pogrom against Christian minorities in 1955. I didn't catch the name of the movie, does anyone know the name of this and when it is coming out?
I'm really glad this movie is being made. At least a quarter of Istanbul in the 1950s was non-muslim; Greeks in Istanbul were exempt from the western Anatolia/Thrace population exchanges. Its time Turks learned what their country did to loyal non-muslim Turkish citizens. In order to spark the riots, MIT (Turkish Intelligence Agency) BOMBED Ataturk's childhood house in Selanika (modern day Thessaloniki, Greece) in a false-flag operation designed to blame the Greeks.
The Turkish deep-state has NO respect for Mustafa Kemal (the actual man of flesh).
The Istanbul Pogrom is when old Istanbul really seized to exist, during Ottoman times Istanbul was a very multi-religious metropolitan. Muslims, Christians, and Musevis (followers of moses) celebrated each others religious holidays. Modern day Istanbul is just but a shadow of its past.
Orhan Pamuk understands the loss of true Istanbul.
Really, there is no other event in the Republican era of Turkey that I find more despicable and embarrassing. The Armenian Genocide was committed during a transitory time under Turanist rule. However, the Istanbul Pogroms was committed after the Kemalist reforms under the Turkish Republic, and is thus inexusable.
I'm really glad this movie is being made. At least a quarter of Istanbul in the 1950s was non-muslim; Greeks in Istanbul were exempt from the western Anatolia/Thrace population exchanges. Its time Turks learned what their country did to loyal non-muslim Turkish citizens. In order to spark the riots, MIT (Turkish Intelligence Agency) BOMBED Ataturk's childhood house in Selanika (modern day Thessaloniki, Greece) in a false-flag operation designed to blame the Greeks.
The Turkish deep-state has NO respect for Mustafa Kemal (the actual man of flesh).
The Istanbul Pogrom is when old Istanbul really seized to exist, during Ottoman times Istanbul was a very multi-religious metropolitan. Muslims, Christians, and Musevis (followers of moses) celebrated each others religious holidays. Modern day Istanbul is just but a shadow of its past.
Orhan Pamuk understands the loss of true Istanbul.
Really, there is no other event in the Republican era of Turkey that I find more despicable and embarrassing. The Armenian Genocide was committed during a transitory time under Turanist rule. However, the Istanbul Pogroms was committed after the Kemalist reforms under the Turkish Republic, and is thus inexusable.
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