Prologue: a personal chronicle -- Introduction: the Greeks of Istanbul on the eve of September 6,1955 -- Background and institutions of the pogrom -- The pogrom -- Moral and material damages, and the economics and politics of compensation -- From Papagos to Karamanles (the economics and politics of compensation continued) -- The attack on the Greek Orthodox Church -- Crime and punishment, and the trial of the Menderes government -- Conclusions --Appendixes