The Turkish Army Removing the Incumbent Prime Minister From Power and Arresting Him For the Pogrom He Led Against the Greek Citizens and Slowly Turning Turkey Into An Autocracy, May 27th 1960

by IbrahimKDemirsoy

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  1. The Turkish Grand National Assembly posthumously pardoned this criminal and honored him by moving his grave to a mausoleum. There are also several places named after him. Universities, airports etc.

    His legacy is definitely well alive and honored in Turkey.

  2. Good to see. Now do the same with Erdogan as he seems to be on the same path.

  3. No Greeks are left in Istanbul and Hagia Sophia converted to a Mosque.

    On the other hand, Erdogan and Turkish statesmen are still making official visits to their minority in western thrace, while Atatürk’s house in Thessaloniki is a protected museum.

    On these matters, Turkey has failed as a civilised state. No wonder they still aren’t in the EU.

  4. The Greek minority which Turkey agreed to protect with the Treaty of Lausanne.

  5. >*”(…)and Slowly Turning Turkey Into An Autocracy, May 27th 1960.”*

    Explain then to me how a *specificum* like in Turkey; where since 1923 the military can overrule and oust a president was a democracy? That more resembles an autocratic regime than a democratic one, so “slowly truning Turkey into an autocracy” is false preposition because **there were never** a balance of government branches (checks and balances) in Turkey like there are in western democracies.

  6. What a lie! He was not hanged because of 6-7 September Incidents. Yes, he was authoritarian but the military or the opposition were not democrats.

  7. And Turkey never did anything to help the victims.

    Instead they later pardoned the perpetrators and built a Mausoleum in his honor, one of 4 in Turkey, and named a University and an airport after him.

    **And 10 years later, Inonu expelled over 50.000 Greeks from Turkey, and even made 30 professions illegal for Greeks.**

    Turkey also never returned people’s possessions after the “Varlik Vergisi”, the extreme tax aimed at minorities.
    Even though Turkish courts judged the taxation as unlawful and ordered for people’s money to be returned.

    Turkey has repeatedly violated the Lausanne treaty and made everything in its power to destroy what was left of the Greeks still in Turkey, in The City and Imbros & Tenedos.

    Here’s a [source](https://www.academia.edu/6487178/The_violations_of_the_Treaty_of_Lausanne) with a few dozen violations and actions against the Greeks for anyone interested.
    Even though this source also mentions various ignored murders and attacks against Greeks, it does a good job of showcasing what happened to the Greeks that were left alive in Turkey.

  8. Today he would have been celebrated as a hero by some Turks

  10. A bit confused by the title…

    Did the prime minister slowly turn Turkey into an autocracy or did the army after removing him?

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