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In 1965 the "Society of the Greeks expelled from Turkey" was founded in Athens by prominent members of their diaspora. [17] The exodus continued during the subsequent years with additional thousands of local Greeks leaving Istanbul in fear of losing their lives and property.
This is a list of educational institutions that were shut down in the course of the 2016 Turkish purges.. On 23 July 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan shut down 1,043 private schools, 1,229 charities and foundations, 19 trade unions, 15 universities and 35 medical institutions in his first emergency decree under the newly adopted emergency legislation.
On 2 January 2021, AKP founder and politician Melih Bulu was appointed as rector of the Boğaziçi University by presidential decree. According to faculty, this makes him the first rector to be chosen without involvement of the university since the 1980 coup d'état, [12] when Ergün Toğrol, an academician of Istanbul Technical University, had also been appointed as rector.
In 2022, Turkey demands the extradition of many members of the Gülen movement and PKK from Finland and Sweden, of which Sweden wants to become a NATO member. [174] However, the two countries rejected Turkey's extradition requests. [175] On 18 May 2022, Turkey quickly blocked Finland and Sweden's applications for accelerated membership in NATO ...
In 1955, the Istanbul Pogrom caused most of the remaining Greek inhabitants of Istanbul to flee the country. Historian Alfred-Maurice de Zayas identifies the pogrom as a crime against humanity and he states that the flight and migration of Greeks afterwards corresponds to the "intent to destroy in whole or in part" criteria of the Genocide ...
The Istanbul pogrom, also known as the Istanbul riots, [6] [3] were a series of state-sponsored anti-Greek mob attacks directed primarily at Istanbul's Greek minority on 6–7 September 1955. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The pogrom was orchestrated by the governing Democrat Party in Turkey with the cooperation of various security organizations ( Tactical ...
He was born in Büyükada island near Istanbul and was known in Turkey as Lefter Küçükandonyadis. Ioanna Koutsouranti (1936): philosopher and Maltepe University Academic. Born in Istanbul from a Greek (Rum) family, she's known in Turkey as İoanna Kuçuradi. Sappho Leontias (1832–1900): writer, feminist and educationist. Born in Istanbul.
[46] [47] The dispute over Cyprus kept anti-Greek feelings in Turkey high. At the height of the intercommunal violence in Cyprus, thousands of Greeks were expelled from Turkey in 1964–1965, mostly Constantinople. In March 1964, all persons (over 6,000) with Greek citizenship were expelled "on the grounds that they were dangerous to the ...