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This broadcast by Kostas Christofilopoulos and Dimitris Pantazopoulos discusses the events against the Greek community in Constantinople in 1955, known as the 'September Events,' and how the Greeks of the city experienced them.
Greek residents of Constantinople provide oral testimonies that convey their traumatic memories from September 1955. These personal narratives describe incidents and capture images of the destruction and violence that took place.
University Professor Neoklis Sarris provides a historical overview of the events, examining how minorities were treated by both the Ottoman Empire and later the Kemalist state. He also explains the causes that led to the organized fanaticism of the Turkish population and the attacks on the night of September 6. His narration focuses on the year 1955, analyzing the foreign policy of the Menderes government in relation to the Cyprus issue and the role of Great Britain. He also mentions the political trial against the Menderes regime, focusing on the anti-Greek events of September 6-7.
Participants in the program include Despoina Isaakidou, Miltiadis Nikolaidis, Nikolaos Atzemoglou, Marika Kontopoulou, and the correspondent-photographer of the Patriarchate, Dimitris Kaloumenos.
Rare archival audiovisual and photographic material is presented during the broadcast, along with newspaper headlines from the era.
The program was produced and aired in 1996 by ERT2, commemorating the 41st anniversary of the 'September Events' of 1955.
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