Turkish Destruction of Greek Community of Istanbul 1955


This is an Update to my original post on December 1, 2009 and includes the 785 names mentioned in the book.


Book - The Mechanism of Catastrophe - Turkish Pogrom of September 6-7, 1955, Destruction of Greek Community of Istanbul


By Speros Vryonis, Jr. - published in 2005 by Greekworks.com - New York


You can purchase a brand new copy of this book through the publisher's website at Greekworks.com or work with your local librarian to get a copy of this book through inter-library loan - which is what I did.


Below you can view the Table of Contents, the Synopsis of the book from the dust jacket, and the 785 different people of Greek descent mentioned in the book.



TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations – 90 photographs
Prefatory Dedication, Acknowledgments
Prologue – A Personal Chronicle
Introduction – The Greeks of Istanbul on the Eve of September 6, 1955
Background and Institutions of the Pogrom
The Pogrom
Moral and Material Damages, and the Economics and Politics of Compensation
From Papagos to Karamanles (the Economics and Politics of Compensation continued)
The Attack on the Greek Orthodox Church
Crime and Punishment, and the Trial of the Menderes Government
Conclusions
Appendixes, Bibliography, Index
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FROM THE DUST JACKET
“On the night of September 6-7, 1955, the Greek community of Istanbul was violently struck throughout the expanse of Turkey’s most important metropolis. Within hours, businesses, homes, and even the churches of the Greeks were in ruins, with the British press calculating the damage of £100 million. It was the beginning of the end for the ethnic descendants of the city’s founders, who had settled this eastern tip of Europe two and a half millennia earlier.
This vicious and unprovoked attack quickly became entangled in the Cold War politics of the time, and the truth of it was just as quickly suppressed. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the mass destruction, Speros Vryonis has painstakingly reconstructed the events of that night in his magisterial work, The Mechanism of Catastrophe: The Turkish Pogrom of September 6-7, 1955, and the Destruction of the Greek Community of Istanbul.
This monumental study of a decisive moment in modern Turkish and Greek history is the first work of its depth ad range to be published on this critical subject in any language. It has been lauded even before publication as “a magnum opus,” “original and significant,” and a “brilliant book.” Surely, it will soon take its place as the definitive study of the violence it so meticulously describes and examines.
The volume includes an extensive section with remarkable photographs of the attacks by Demetrios Kaloumenos. This extraordinary visual documentation lends additional weights to the archival testimony presented y Speros Vryonis, and to his historical analysis of the pogrom, its aftermath, and its broader consequences.”

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NAMES MENTIONED IN BOOK

Achilleas
Aetras, Nikolaos Demetriou
Aivatoglou, Nikolaos
Akestorides
Alavanos, Alexandros
Albertes, Nikolaos Michael
Alekos
Alexandrides, Alekos
Alexiadou, Katina Demetriou
Alexios, Georgios Ioannou
Alitzoglou
Amazopoulos
Amirales, Kosmas
Ananias
Anastasiades, Ioannes
Anastasiades, Ioannes Konstantinou
Anastasiades, K.
Anastasiades, Manoles
Anastasiades, Zacharias Michael
Anavas, Avraam
Andreadou, Maria Panagiotou
Andreas
Andriotes, Iakovos Ioannou
Anestides, A.
Angelides
Anninos-Kavallieratos, Phaidon
Anninos, Stylianos Alexandrou
Anthimos (Priest)
Antones
Antoniades
Antoniou, Konstantinos Antoniou
Aperge, Frangiske (wife of Nikolaos)
Apostolides, Nikos
Apostolidou, Venetia
Armaos, Nikolaos Antoniou
Arzoumanides, Kotsos
Aslanoglou, Savvas
Asteres, Chrestos Nikolaou
Athanasatos, Athanases
Athenagoras (Ecumenical Patriarch)
Athenaios, Konstantinos
Atzemoglou, Nikos
Bagias Brothers
Bagias, Niketas
Balkes, Giannes
Barotses, Alfonsos
Bartalides
Bassous, B. S.
Batses
Bayias Brothers
Belias, Ioannes
Belias, Panteles
Benadon, Vitales
Benentatos, George
Benlisoy, Andreas
Bournakos (sp?), Ioannes
Chaitales, Apostolos
Charalambides, G.
Charalambos
Chares
Charilaos
Charitonides, Zenovia
Charitonidou, Zenovia
Chasapidou, Euthalia (Eudoxia?)
Chaskopoulos, Demetrios
Chaskopoulos, Stauros
Chatzakos, K.
Chatzeandreou, Anestes
Chatzegeorgiou, Tarse
Chatzegregores, G.
Chatzegregores, N.
Chatzeparas, Demetrios
Chatzepetros, Petros
Chatzes, Athanasios
Chatzopoulos, Alexandros
Chatzopoulos, Georgios
Chatzopoulos, Konstantinos
Choliades
Chourmouziades, Georgios
Chrestakes, Georgios
Chrestides, Christoforos
Chrestides, G.
Chrestides, Miltiades
Christodoulides, Asteres
Christodoulides, Christodoulos
Christodoulides, Sergios
Chronopoulos, Demetrios
Chrysanthides, F.
Chrysanthopoulos, Themistokles
Chrysopoulos, Manoles
Dadai, Avraam
Dallas, Vasileios
Daniolos, Michael
Danoulakes
Dapollas, Georgios
Dapyllas, G.
Daskalosoglou, N.
Dedekas
Dedes, Vasileios
Defades
Dekavalas
Delapollas, Petros
Delatolas, Antonios
Delatolas, Petros
Delegiannes, Demetrios
Dematos
Demetriades, Agathokles
Demetriades, Michael Georgiou
Demetros
Demirtzioglou, I.
Demos, Demetrios
Dermosonoglou, K.
Dermosonoglou, Th.
Dermou, Alike
Desires, D.
Devletoglou, V.
Devletoglu, Vasil
Devliotes, Athanasios
Diamantides
Diamantopoulos, Demetrios
Dimantes, Demetrios
Diogenes
Dismanes, Demetrios
Doikos, K.
Dokas, D.
Doptoglou, Anna Demetriou
Dorizas, Menandros
Dosdogru
Doukoglou, Antonios
Doupes, Elias
Douratsos, Natales
Dourmetakes
Dovas, Konstantinos
Drakopoulos, K.
Dromides
Drosinos, Gerasimos
Droumpoulas, Konstantinos
Droumpoulas, Theofilos
Eftas
Eleutheriades, Aristarchos
Eleutheriades, E.
Eliades, Ch.
Eliaskos, Nikolaos
Eminonu, Anastases
Emmanouelides, Sergios
Enkara
Enotiades, Theodore
Erpapzoglu, George
Ethnopouloi Brothers
Euangelides, Ioakeim
Eudoxia
Eugenides, G.
Euthymiades
Euthys, Elias
Euthys, Giorgos
Exarchos, Anastasios
Exarchos, Stauros
Exentares, Georgios
Famianos
Fanariotes
Farasoglou, I.
Fenerles
Feringos, Antonios
Filipoutses Brothers
Filippides, M.
Fornaros, Demetrios
Fornaros, Theodoros
Fotes
Fotiades, Fotes
Fourtounas, Georgios
Frangakes Brothers
Frangantone, Aglaia
Frangineas, Giannes
Frangoules
Gade, Maria
Ganetides, Nikolaos Charalambous
Garbes, Chrestos Ioannou
Garyfallou, Frangoules Kallinikou
Gasparakes, Demetrios
Gasparakes, Demetrios Georgiou
Gavala, Marika
Gavriles
Genedounias, G.
Georgiades, Th.
Georgiades, Theodoros
Georgiades, Theodoros A.
Georgos
Gerados, Kyriakos
Gerardos, Kyriakos Panagiotou
Gerasimos (Bishop of Pamphilos)
Gerasimos, Christoforos
Giannakareles, Demetrios Ioannou
Giannes
Giannoutas, Th.
Giataganas, Chrestos Spyrou
Ginas, Elias Eustratiou
Giokas, Georgios Stefanou
Giolmas, Miltiades
Giotos, Leonidas
Gioulekas, Ioannes-Nikolaos Ioannou
Gizes, K.
Gizes, Kon/tinos
Gizes, Konstantinos Markou
Glinides
Glypses, Alexandros Spyridonos
Glytsos, Konstantinos Emmanuel
Gourlakes, Demetrios
Gouveres, Nikolaos
Gregores
Groumberg, G.
Hatzeandrou, A.
Hatzeparas, Demetrios
Iakovos
Iatropoulos, Alexandros
Iatropoulos, Menelaos
Ingleses, Aristeides
Ioannides, Ioannes
Ioannides, M.
Ioannides, P.
Ioannidou-Moysidou, Gedikouliane
Ioannou, Aristoteles
Ionas and Sons
Iordanes
Iordanidou, Maria
Iosefides, Georgios
Iosefides, St.
Iosefides, Strates
Isaakides, O.
Isaakidou, Despoina
Istorios, Gregorios
Itsios, Simos
Kaiktsakes, Nikolaos
Kalevrouses
Kalfaoglou
Kallerges, Ioannes
Kalligares, Stauros
Kallinikos A.
Kallinikos Brothers
Kallinikos, Anastasios
Kallotses
Kalogeras, Michael
Kaloumenos, Demetrios
Kaloumenos, Demos
Kaloumenos, Markos
Kanake, Maria Andreou
Kanakes, (Mr.)
Kanakes, Maria Andreou
Kanakores
Kanellopoulos, Panagiotes
Kangelares, Apostolos
Kapellos, Stefanos
Kapetanides
Kapisizoglou, D.
Kapisizoglou, I.
Kapsambeles, Agis
Karabines, Tasos
Karagiannes, Giannes
Karagiannopoulos, Nikolaos
Karagiorgas, Giorgos
Karakas, Charalambous
Karakygiannes, Chrestos
Karamalengos
Karamanles, Konstantinos
Karamanoglu, Nikolas
Karamanos, Aristeides
Karametses, Chrestos
Karampodos (Priest)
Karapiperes, Kon/tinos
Karapiperes, Konstantinos
Karapiperes, Z.
Karaxes, Demetrios
Karaxes, Leftheres
Karidopoulos, Iason
Karveles, Athanasios
Karystinos
Katalos, N.
Katanos Brothers
Katanos, Nikolaos
Katanos, Stergios
Katrinares
Katsanos, Nikolas
Katsanos, Stelios
Katsaros, Konstantinos
Katses, Athanasios
Katses, Petros
Kavalares, Ioannes
Kavallieratos
Kavounides, Georgios
Kazas, Georgios
Kazas, Giannes
Kazas, Nikos
Kazelas Brothers
Kazelas, Georgios
Kazelas, Konstantinos
Kececioglu, Alvitte
Keramares, Ippokrates
Kesisoglu, Yani
Ketsetzioglou, Chr.
Ketsetzioglou, I.
Ketsetzioglou, Koukas
Kimiadou, Olga
Kiosef, S.
Kioseoglou, Giannes
Kiritses
Kleovoulos
Klosterides, Nikolaos
Kokkinides, Charalambos
Kokkinos, N.
Koklamanes, Georgios
Kolaros Brothers
Kolaros, A.
Kolaros, G.
Kolisanes, Marinos
Kollios, Andreas
Kongoures, Iosef
Konstantinides, Erakles
Konstantinides, Ermenios
Konstantinides, Ermin
Konstantinides, Euang.
Konstantinides, Georgios
Konstantinides, K.
Konstantinides, Kon/tinos
Konstantinides, Konstantinos
Konstantinides, Kristal
Konstantinides, Lilika
Konstantinides, Menas
Konstantinides, Miltiades
Konstantinides, N.
Konstantinides, Petros
Konstantinides, S.
Konstantinides, Sokrates
Konstantinou, Elene
Konstantinou, Ioannes
Kontaxes
Kontomerkos, Chrestos
Kontopoulos, I.
Kontorouchas, Chrestos
Kopases
Korpovas, George
Kostas
Kostopoulos, Stauros
Kotes, Leonidas
Kotrotsios, Konstantinos
Kotsaras
Kotsos
Kottakes
Koukoulares, G.
Koukoulares, Ioannes
Koulouthres, K.
Koumakes, Leonidas
Kounades, Demetrios
Kounades, Fotios
Kounanides, Fotios
Koungounes, Iosef
Kountanas, Chrestos
Kourtales, Georgios
Kourteles, Georgios
Kourteses, Markos
Kourtoulmous, K.
Koutroules
Koutsoukes
Kozakes, Athanasios
Krassas
Krimezas, Michael
Krithariotes, Euangelos
Kritses, Lenas
Kyriakides, Kyriakos
Kyriakos
Kyrilopoulos
Kyritses
Kyritzes, Lenas
Kyrkos brothers
Kyros
Kyrouses, Meltos
Lafas, Demetrios
Lagopoulos
Lambropoulos, Paikos
Lambros
Langos, Chrestos
Latopoulos, Theoharis L.
Latses, E.
Lazaras
Lefas
Lefteres
Legaitas, Anastasios
Leipsanos, Antonios
Leivadas, Gregorios
Lekas, K.
Lembesopoulos, Euripides
Lenas, A.
Lenas, Ch.
Lennas, Charalambos
Lenos, Aristeides
Letas, G.
Leukaros, Frangiskos
Leventes
Liagoures, Nikolaos
Liaze, Argrios
Liaze, Argyrios
Liaze, Kosmas
Liaze, Sideres
Litopoulos
Livadas
Logothetes, Georgios
Loles, G.
Lorandos, Kosmas
Lorentzos
Loufakes, Ioannes
Loukas
Loukkatos, Demetrios
Loukrezes, Konstantinos
Lykiardopoulos, Eustathios
Magoulas, Nikolaos
Mainas
Makarios (Archbishop of Cyprus)
Makelarides
Makkou, Marika
Makres, Fotios
Makres, Konstantinos Nikolaou
Makres, Savvas
Makrinas, G.
Mangos, Antonios
Mangos, Nikolaos
Manikas, Demetrios
Mantas, Chrysanthos
Manthios, Theodoros
Manthos
Mantzoukas, Stauros
Marangopoulos
Marasoglou, St.
Margietes
Marinos, Ioannes - (sp?)
Marinos, O.
Markopoulos, Nikolaos
Marosoglou, Kyriakos
Martinos
Mastorakes, Antonios
Mastorakes, Euangelos
Maurides
Mauromaras, Panagiotes
Mauromates, Menas
Mauros, Stylianos
Mauroudes, Theodoros
Mazarakes, Dionysios
Melas, Georgios V.
Melas, Nikolaos
Meletiades, I.
Meliopoulos, Alexis (Dr.)
Melitaios, Manoles
Menegakes
Menelaos
Menopoulos, Demetrios
Mermengas, Demetrios
Mesolongites, Telemachos
Metakides, A.
Metakides, D.
Metakides, Theofanes
Metakides, V.
Metretikas, Ioannes
Metsakes
Michael, Nikolaos
Michaelides, Gregorios
Michaelides, M.
Michaelides, Theodore
Michales
Millas
Misaelides, Soterios
Misiloglou, St.
Misiroglou, Thanases
Mitseles, Alekos
Mitseles, Kotsos
Molokotos
Morfites, Emmanouel
Moukas, Vasileios
Mousoure, Maria
Moustakes, Gerasimos
Mouteveles
Mumas, Nas
Muratoglou, Nicholas
Myrodia, Sofia
Mytakides, Vasileios
Mytarakes, M.
Mytilenaios, Georgios
Nanopoulos, Charalambos
Naoum
Negropontes
Nikolaides, Apostolos
Nikolaides, G.
Nikos
Nimos
Nintes (sp?), Demetrios
Nizamakes, A.
Noios, Nikolaos
Nomidou, Thalia
Nomikos, Konstantinou
Nonnes, Elias
Noutsios, Panagiotes
Oikonomides, V.
Oikonomou, Demetrios
Oikonomou, Ioannes Panagiotou
Oreles, Ch.
Orfanides, Paulos
Ouzounoglou, V.
Oxousoglou, Vasileios
Pachnes, Konstantinos
Pagones, Michael
Pagones, N.
Palaiologos, Paulos
Palamas, Chrestos
Palavides, Dem.
Palavides, Demetrios
Palavidis
Pamfila, Elene
Panages Brothers
Panagiotes
Panagiotides Brothers
Panopoulos, Nikolaos
Pantazes, Ioannes
Pantazopoulos, Leonidas
Panteles
Pantzires
Papachatzes, Lambides
Papades, D.
Papades, Demetrios
Papades, Ioannes
Papades, Leonidas
Papadopoulos, Antonios
Papadopoulos, Georgios
Papadopoulos, Leonidas
Papadopoulos, Nikos
Papadopoulos, Vasileios
Papadopoulou, Theopoula
Papageorgiou, G.
Papageorgiou, Georgios
Papageorgiou, P.
Papageorgiou, Panagiotes
Papagos, Alexandros
Papamanolakes, Giannes
Papanastasiou, Ioannes
Papaniketas, G.
Papanikolas, Sokrates
Paparafeios
Paparafiou, Nikolaos
Papas, Euangelos
Papathanasiou, Kon/tinos
Papatheodorou, Konstantinos
Papavramides, Agath.
Papavramides, Agathangelos Athanasiou
Papavramides, Leandros Athanasiou
Parantonopoulos, Asemenia
Paraschos, F.
Parises, Ioannes
Pasaj, Chatzopoulos
Paschalides, Serafeim
Pastellas, Euthymios
Patounas, Demetrios
Patounas, Telemachos
Patrianos, Agamemnon
Patriarchaias, K.
Patriarcheas, G.
Patsikakes
Paulas
Paulides, Chr.
Paulides, Nikolaos
Paulos
Pavloich, K.
Pekounes, Antonios
Pervaneles, K.
Petinas, S.
Petros
Petros-Fotes Brothers
Pilafides, A.
Pilafides, Ioakeim
Piperides, K.
Pitikas, Symeon
Pitoglou, D.
Plakas, D.
Plakas, K.
Platonides
Plemmyrides
Pletas
Plytas, Giorgos
Polatos
Polyvios
Poriches, A.
Portokallis, Despoina
Portokallis, Vassilis
Poules, Erakles
Poulios, K.
Poulopoulos, Ioannes
Pouplides, Alexandros
Prasman, Petros
Prelorentzou, Charikleia
Prodromos
Psaltes (sp?), Konstantinos
Psylakes
Pyroglou, D.
Pyrovolides, Paulos
Rafaletos, Konstantinos
Raktivan
Ralles, Georgios
Raptes, Ioannes
Razes, Antonios
Rizzo, M.
Rodokanakes, Galimites
Rosito
Rossopoulos
Rousos, A.
Rousos, D.
Roussos, Angelos
Roussos, G.
Sachinoglou, Georgios
Salahas, Markos
Samouchos
Santamoures, Mirkos
Sapountzakes, G.
Sapoutzakes, K.
Sarantes, Petros
Sarres, Ioannes
Sarres, Neokles
Savvaides
Schoinas, Nikolaos
Scholarios, Gennadeios
Semikopoulos, N.
Serefeimides, Michales
Sergiades
Sgourdaios, Theodoros
Siderides
Sigalas, S.
Sigounes, Michael
Siotes, Kon/tinos
Siotes, Konstantinos
Skanides, S.
Skarpeles, Achilleus
Skenterides, Vasileios
Sklavounos, Iosef
Skoulides
Skylitzes
Slabides
Smyrnaios, Konstantinos
Smyrnaios, Stamatios
Solomos, E.
Solomos, Elias
Soropides
Soterakes
Soteriades, Alexes
Souliotes, Elias
Spetsiotes, Constantine
Spetsiotes, Ioannes
Spetsiotes, Ioannes, G.
Spinokias
Spyratou, Anastasia
Spyrou, Spyros
Srakares, Georgios
Stafylias, Demetrios
Stamargas, Euangelos
Stamates
Stamatiades, Konstantinos
Stamatiades, M.
Stamatiou, Michael
Stamatopoulos, Kostas
Staurides
Stauropoulos, Archimedes
Stauropoulos, S.
Stauros
Stefanides, Iakovos
Stefanopoulos, Stefanos
Stefos
Stelianides, L. V.
Stelianides, Nicolas
Stelios
Strakares, Georgios
Strantzales, Konstantinos
Stratos, Fotios
Stratos, Kyr (Sexton)
Stylianos, Chr.
Stylianou, Chrestos
Sygrine, Demetrios
Symas, Vasiles
Synodinos, Antonios
Tachmintzoglou, Ananias
Tachmintzoglou, Iakovos
Takes
Terzakes, G.
Terzakopoulos, Nikolaos
Thanases
Themes
Theochares, Anastasios
Theodoropoulos, Vyron
Theodoros
Theofanides, Chr.
Theotokas, Ioannes
Theotokes, Spyros
Topides, G.
Topouzoglou, V.
Toukitides, S.
Tranakas, Demetrios
Triantafyllides, Demetrios
Trouboulas, Theofilos
Troumpoulas, Fotes
Tsakyres, A.
Tsalikides, Georgios Rossos
Tsamopoulos
Tsampos, Theodoros
Tsangopoulos brothers
Tsariotes, N.
Tsariotes, Nikolaos
Tseklioglou, K.
Tselovits, Konstantinos
Tsikos, Apostolos
Tsirigotes
Tsitouras brothers
Tsitoures Brothers
Tsitoures, Demetrios
Tsitsilides, Th.
Tsivitzoglou, Euthymios
Tsokonas, Takes
Tsolakoglou
Tsoukatos, A.
Tsoukatos, Athenodoros
Tsoukatos, Athenodoros Panagiotou
Tsoukatos, Peter
Tsoukouroglou, Avraam
Tsoules, Giannes
Tsouroukoglou, Michales
Tzakanika, Feuronia
Tzanetes, Emmanuel
Tzimos
Tzinetas, Chrysostomos
Tzonker
Uludag, Isaak
Vafeiades, E.
Vafeiades, Symeon
Valsamakes, A.
Valsamakes, Antonios Demetriou
Vareses, Stefanos Spyrou
Varlas, Demetrios Panagiotou
Vasilakos, Vasileios
Vasilakos, Vasileios Georgiou
Vasilatos, Gerasimos
Vasileiades, Ioannes
Vasileiades, L.
Vasilios, Georgios Demetriou
Vasos, Paulos
Vate, Charikleia Nikolaou
Vate, Ermione Nikolaou
Vavoulas, Georgios Nikolaou
Veletsos, Kleouvoulos
Veletsos, Kleovoulos Georgiou
Veltras, Epameinondas Nikolaou
Venetes
Vetras, Epameinondas
Vezane, Konstantia Georgiadou
Vikopoulos, Stergios Konstantinou
Vlavianos, Konstantinos Michael
Vlysides
Volakes, Alexandros
Volakes, Alexandros Ioannou
Vonortas, Demetrios Ioannou
Vougides, P.
Voutsinas, A.
Vrane, Smaro
Williams, Leandros
Xanthou, Elene
Xenakes
Xenakes, Ioannes
Yolma, Eve
Zaarants, I.
Zacharatos
Zachariades
Zacharias
Zacharopoulos, Euthymios
Zacharopoulos, Panagiotes
Zaharatos, Georgios
Zampikou, Charikleia
Zarida, Angelike
Zarifes
Zarokostas, Panos
Zarvavatsakes, V.
Zekopoulos, Aristos
Zele, Eleutheria
Zelle, Eleutheria
Zervoudakes, K.
Zervoudakis, N.
Zorzos, G.
Zotos, K.






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