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#Turkish Hypocrisy, art of genocide & demographic change .

How an occupation force now "has the right" to ask and speaking about legal rights, international law & make demands.

How #Turkey destroyed the #Greeks of Minor Asia.

The destruction of #Smyrna or otherwise the Great Fire of #Smyrna refers to the events of the massacre of the #Greek and #Armenian population of Smyrna by the #Kemalist army, as well as the burning of the city, which occurred in September 1922.

On January 30, 1923, the Greek-Turkish treaty was signed, which regulated the exchange of populations between #Greece and #Turkey. The obligatory exchange was provided between the Greek Orthodox residents from Turkey and the Muslim residents from Greece.

This Convention would apply both to those who remained in their homes and to those who had already taken refuge in the co-religious country.
In fact,the exchange was valid retroactively for all movements that took place from the day the First Balkan War was declared (18/10/1912)

The #Greek Orthodox from #Constantinople, #Imbros and #Tenedos, as well as the Muslims from Western #Thrace were excluded from this exchange. The subject of the exchange was raised by the Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Near East.

According to the exchange contract
*Τhey would relinquish their old citizenship and acquire the citizenship of the country in which they settled
*They had the right to transfer their movable property
were entitled to receive from the state to which they immigrated as compensation

property equal to the immovable property they left leaving
would be facilitated by the Joint Exchange Committee.

The Greek population of the greater Constantinople was estimated at 298,000 people.
Those Greeks who remained in Constantinople were supposed to be protected by various provisions of the treaty.
Aday after the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne, Turkey began to restrict the rights

Turkey's hostile policy against the Greek minority was the recruitment of 20 classes of expatriates, aged 25-45 Their deployment to working battalions amele taburlari to carry out snowfall,rockfall and road construction in the depths of Turkey,under miserable weather conditions

Finally, the most devastating measure against the expatriate was the infamous "property tax" varlik for the locals of Constantinople. According to this law,the Turkish authorities arbitrarily set a tax on minorities that was twice or even 3 times the total value of their property

In case the taxpayer did not pay the tax within fifteen days, the tax collectors had the right to confiscate all his movable and immovable property. A thirty-day delay meant the deportation of the "debtors" to special camps and the execution of forced labor.

The result of this law was the confiscation of many properties (since the expatriates were asked to pay up to ten times what was legally due to them - as opposed to the Turks, who paid symbolic sums) or their sale to Turks for small sums.

On September 3 ,1955 the Turkish Consul's wife in Thessaloniki called a Greek photographer and asked him to photograph the Consulate precinct, which is housed next to an old house where Mustafa Kemal was supposedly born.
He asked for the photos as a "souvenir".

At midnight on September 5th to 6th, a bomb exploded in the garden of the Turkish Consulate, causing only minor damage to windows in the adjacent "Kemal's house".

The bomb, as verified by the investigations carried out by the Greek authorities and proved later in the trial of the protagonists of the events in 1961 on the island of Yassiada was transported from Turkey by a Turkish agent and placed by Turkish messenger of the Consulate.

At 4:00 pm, the Turkish newspaper İstanbul Ekspres ran a special edition and published the photos of the Turkish Consul's wife in a horribly distorted way, giving the impression that a huge bomb had exploded in the house of the Turkish father. placed by the Greeks.

The events of 6-7 September 1955 against the Greeks of Constantinople were organized by the Office of Special Warfare (Özel Harp Dairesi), which was the mechanism set up by NATO to avert the communist threat.

The first gatherings and speeches started at 4:30 in the afternoon, while the first riots must have started around 5:30. Of course, the timing of the Turkish attacks varied from neighborhood to neighborhood.

Turks like wild animals run in Greek neighborhoods and for about 9 hours 1004 houses were completely destroyed ,another 2500 suffered extensive damage.

4348 shops,27 pharmacies,26 schools,5 cultural associations,3 newspaper facilities,12 hotels,11 clinics,21 factories,110 patisseries&restaurants,73 churches were destroyed, while many graves in 2 cemeteries were looted, as well as graves. of the patriarchs in Valoukli Monastery.

At least 30 #Greeks were killed and hundreds more were brutally abused. The rape is estimated at about two thousand by the expatriate circles, although only 200 were officially reported.
Today only 1000 #Greeks live in Constantinople.

The 1928 census describes 103,175 Muslims in Western Thrace , 16,740 are Pomaks and 850 Roma.
Today the Muslims in Thrace are 100,000 to 140,000.
Their number increased and did not decrease like that of the #Greeks in #Constantinople.

In the population exchange between #Greece and #Turkey.
2.2 million #Greeks were displaced and in 10 years #Turks killed 1.5 million #Greeks.

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