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 56 years ago Turkish vandals have attacked the Christian population living in Istanbul, they robbed them, killed and burned. Though 56 years have passed, the massacre is as fresh in our memories as if it happened yesterday.

“Ermenihaber.am” news website writes as soon as Turkish “Ekspres” published the story titled “Greeks blasted the house of Ataturk in Salonik” the Muslim vandals attacked on September 6-7, 1955 against the local non-Muslim population and their homes.

The paper used to have 20 thousand printing volume, but on that day they published 290 thousand copies of it and spread among the people.

The vandal groupings arrived in from other cities and invaded in the houses of Christian population killing, robbing and burning them and their homes.

This was a demonstration of Turkish strategy to force non-Muslims become Turkish.

Local Christian population was scared and shocked by the events. “After those events I was forbidden to go to street alone. I was forbidden to speak in Armenian. Everybody was trying to show they are Turks,” said editor-in-chief of “Agos” daily Bagrat Estukyan.