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"It's essential not to forget that a significant portion of the remaining Christians and Jews from the Ottoman period were lower-class peasants and workers. Consequently, we need to shift our focus and keep it more extensive," says historian Emre Can Dağlıoğlu.

The state should offer apologies and compensate the losses caused by the 1955 pogrom, the HDP has said.

HDP MP Paylan has said, "The Speaker's Office wants to decide which words we will use," on the rejection of the inquiry he submitted regarding the Pogrom of September 6-7 against minorities in İstanbul.

"Our father Atatürk's house has been bombed" was the headline of the Istanbul Express newspaper's second issue in 1955. Years later, retired general Sabri Yirmibeşoğlu refers to the pogrom of 6-7 September as an "excellent special warfare operation that reached its aim".