Riots broke out in Istanbul on the night of September 6 1955, leading to looting in Greek neighborhoods & the destruction of many of the city's churches and synagogues.
More than 5,000 shops belonging to the Greek minority were looted by an emotional crowd of several thousand people reacting to the RUMOR of a bomb attack to the home of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, in Salonika.
The army had to intervene to quell the violence.
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