PM Adnan Menderes' Demokrat Party
Destroying a minority: Turkey’s September 6-7, 1955 pogrom against the Greeks of Istanbul
By George Gilson
The Turkish pogrom against the Greeks of Istanbul which began on 6 September is one of the darkest pages in recent Turkish history and one of the deepest wounds in the collective memory of the Greek nation.
As in the case of the Armenian Genocide, the Turkish state in the ensuing decades never acknowledged the pogrom against the Greek minority. It denied it.