Il 6-7 settembre 1955, i turchi predoni attaccarono le proprietà greche e armene a Istanbul, distruggendo migliaia di negozi, scuole, chiese e cimiteri e commettendo atti violenti, tra cui stupri. Ciò segnò la fine della comunità greca in città, senza che venissero mai fornite riparazioni.

This is why, as a millennial Turk, I completely gave up on Turkey. Erdoğan and his neo-Ottomanism is one thing — it is a cancer. But what do you do when even the secular/laicist Turks are racist like this? Turkey is unfortunately unfixable. It is a sociological aberration. Maybe with the influence of the Internet it’ll be a a normal place someday but even that would take a century.