ANKARA - Tülay Hatimoğulları, HDP Vice Co-chair who is responsible for the Peoples and Beliefs Commission, said in a written statement on the anniversary of the September 6-7 1955 Pogrom, ‘’We are all still living September 6-7.’’

 

Tülay Hatimoğulları, People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Vice Co-chair who is responsible for the Peoples and Beliefs Commission, made a written statement on the anniversary of the 6-7 September 1955 pogrom. Reminding that 66 years have passed since the systematic pogrom against Christian and Jewish citizens, especially the Greek and Armenian people living in many parts of the country such as Istanbul and Izmir, she was emphasized that the perpetrators should be revealed, the loss of life and property should be determined, and the material and moral losses of the victims or their families should be compensated.

 

‘We are still living September 6-7’

 

In the statement, it was said that the policies implemented such as banning the return of Armenians who escaped and survived the 1915 Genocide to their homelands, the 1936 Declaration, the Wealth Tax and the Law on Foundations continued with the 6-7 September Pogrom, the following was stated: ‘’Former Special Warfare Department Head and MGK Secretary General Sabri Yirmibeşoğlu words as ‘September 6-7 is a Special Warfare job. It was an amazing organization. It also reached its goal,’ it is a confession that the pogrom was implemented as a state policy. The attack is also a striking example of how the rulers use racism and other hostility to overshadow social problems, political and economic crisis. Just like the increasing racist attacks against Kurds today, hate speech and crimes against peoples and beliefs still continue, we are all still living September 6-7.’’

 

‘It must be confronted with this shame’

 

In the statement, it was stated that a great massacre took place and that no apology was made to the Christian and Jew citizens, especially the Greeks and Armenians. It was also stated that no official condemn. It said: ‘’This shame carried out towards the ancient peoples of this country must be confronted in order to ensure equal citizenship, to build a future far from hatred and discrimination, and to ensure social peace. As a must of living together in this country; It is essential to reveal the perpetrators, to determine the loss of life and property, and to compensate the material and moral losses of the victims or their families.’’