Dear metehan2001,

You say that “If you go to the below WEB PAGE address, you will see how Greeks had tortured and tyrannized Turkish people, before 1955 Istanbul incidents” but the events described there, are referring to the year 1963 and after (however, for what its worth, know that I feel ashamed as a Greek to read this info).

You say that this book is written by a Greek nationalist and thus it can’t be objective. Is this information also partial? Wikipedia

Finally, you suggest that we should all be objective. I know I am. Can you be?

I’ve been trying to find an explanation (not today but for quite sometime now) for the events of September 1955, something that would sustain this tragedy, but I have come up with nothing.

There was only a bomb explosion in Ataturk’s house in Selanik, which bomb – as it was proved later – was put there by a Turk, who was following orders from the Turkish government. I’m not blaming the people who committed these acts of violence. They didn’t know. Your authorities are the ones to blame.

I have found reasonable excuses for every other dark incident in the history of Greece and Turkey. And in fact, I always tend to put the blame on us, Greeks. We took what we deserved in 1922, maybe the expulsion of the Greek minority in 1964 was justified (!?) and maybe we forced our luck too later in Cyprus and so on (although all these subjects are under discussion). But this particular event was absolutely unjustified and unfair.

Admitting the mistakes that our own countries have made, doesn’t make us traitors. It only means that we are healthy minded persons, who want to understand the motives and the reasons, follow the events, count the losses and finally be able to come to an objective conclusion, which will help us avoid the same mistakes in the future. Burying the hatred without analyzing it, can only work temporarily. One day though, it will dig its way out again and the same mistakes will be repeated.

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One of too many black pages in the history of these two nations, but probably the most unfair of all. Historical sources say that the story of a bomb explosion in Ataturk's house in Thessaloniki, was in the Turkish newspapers before the bomb even exploaded!!! This tells a lot about who was really responsible and what was the aim behind the actions.
I wont comment any further. Kadersokak's post says it all.




"And yet, despite this Turkish record of enmity against Greeks and Greece, a behavior bordering on perpetual war, Greece persists in being friendly to Turkey, a paradox that Vryonis fails to address..."