In a statement about September 6-7 pogrom, the HDP has called on the authorities “to face this shame, identify the perpetrators and compensate the material and immaterial losses of the aggrieved people or their families.”
Underlining that the September 6-7 pogrom is one of the most painful and shameful incidents in Turkey's history, the statement has briefly read:
"On September 6-7, 1955, Christian and Jewish citizens, primarily the Rums (Greek) and Armenians, living in İstanbul, İzmir and several parts of Turkey were subjected to a wave of planned and systematic attacks.
"According to the official figures, as a result of militarist powers' guidance and inhuman attacks of groups mobilized by lies and black propaganda, 73 churches, 8 holy springs of Orthodox Greeks, 2 monsateris and 5,538 houses and workplaces, 3,584 of which belonged to Rums, were burned down and ravaged only in İstanbul.
'Religious leaders battered'
"While several people were massacred in the pogrom, religious leaders were battered, cemeteries were damaged and tens of thousands of citizens had to leave Turkey due to pressures and threats to their safety of life.
"Hundreds of women were subjected to sexual assault, which showed that all attacks of harassment and rape targeting women also lived on racist and belligerent mentality.
'Assaulters were rewarded with promotions'
"Special War Bureau Chief and National Security Council Secretary General Sabri Yirmibeşoğlu said, 'September 6-7 was also done by the Special War. It was a terrific organization. It achieved its purpose.' These words prove that the pogrom was committed as a policy of the state. The attack is also a striking indication of how power holders use racism and animosity towards the other in every period to overshadow social problems and economic crisis.
"Even though 65 years have passed since the attack, the assaulters have been protected and the massacre has been covered up, as in the case of every sad and shameful incident in the Republican history. On the contrary, the assaulters have been rewarded by being promoted.
'Damages have not been compensated in any way'
"The state has not faced up to the September 6-7 pogrom, apologies have not been offered to Christain and Jewish citizens, primarily Rums and Armenians, and the damages have not been compensated in any way at all.
"It is our major demand and a must of living together that this shame targeting the old peoples of Turkey be faced, the perpetrators be identified and the material and immaterial losses of suffered by the aggrieved people or their families be compensated."
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