Many of the Greek Orthodox people expelled from Turkey were resettled in the region of Attike, which includes the city of Athens, and the region of Makedonia in northern Greece, which includes the city of Thessaloniki. Over the course of the next few decades, the gyros as we know it today developed: a distinctly Greek sandwich made with vertically-roasted pork wrapped in pita bread, often served with tzatziki sauce, onions, and tomatoes. This name, however, fell out of favor in the Greek-speaking world over the course of the s, 60s, and 70s, when relations between Greece and Turkey, which had never been good to begin with, rapidly deteriorated.
One major event in this process began in early September , when the Turkish press began promoting a false report that Greek terrorists had bombed the Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki. In reality, a bomb had been planted by a Turkish usher and university student named Oktay Engin, who had been acting under the orders of the Turkish consul M. Ali Balin himself. Both Engin and Balin were later arrested and confessed to their crimes.
The mob brutally assaulted Greek residents themselves, raped Greek women, and forcibly circumcised Greek Othodox priests in the streets. In addition to targeting ethnic Greeks, the mob also targeted ethnic Armenian and Jewish people. In total, the mob is thought to have killed at least thirty people, but the exact number is uncertain, since an accurate death toll was never taken.
An article written by a journalist named Noel Barber published in The Daily Mail on 14 September describes the violence:. Another old Greek priest [Father Mantas] in a house belonging to the church and who was too ill to be moved was left in bed, and the house was set on fire and he was burned alive.
They tried to tear the hair of another priest, but failing that, they scalped him, as they did many others. Many Turkish residents of İstanbul tried to protect their Greek, Armenian, and Jewish neighbors from the nationalist mob. In , the number of Greek people in İstanbul was 65, By , the number had fallen to 49, Today, the total Greek population in İstanbul is only around 2, people. Another series of events that greatly damaged Greek-Turkish relations occurred in Turkey immediately responded by invading Kypros on 20 July.
The Turkish government began promoting an aggressive policy of settler-colonialism, pushing for ethnic Turks from mainland Turkey to settle in northern Kypros on lands that had been illegally stolen from native Greek Kypriots.
All other countries and international organizations consider Northern Kypros illegally occupied Kypriot territory. The southern part of the island is controlled by the legitimate government of the Republic of Kypros, while the northern part is illegally occupied by the Turkish military and operates as an unrecognized de jure state. Around the same time that the Kypriot crisis was unfolding, companies in the United States began to mass-produce ingredients for making gyros.
While gyroi in Greece and Kypros are generally made from pieces of roasted pork, mass-produced gyros in the United States are usually made from cones of highly processed meat, manufactured from assorted ground-up beef and lamb trimmings, mixed with bread crumbs, water, oregano, and other seasonings. According to an investigative article published in The New York Times on 14 July , the first person in the United States to establish a plant for the mass-production of gyros cones was a Jewish former Marine and Cadillac salesman with the rather ironic name John Garlic, who reportedly set up an assembly line producing gyros cones in a rented space in a sausage plant in Chicago sometime before Supposedly, his wife saw a Greek restaurant owner demonstrate how to cook gyroi on television and suggested to her husband that he should find a way to mass-produce them.
Currently, the largest company in the United States producing gyros meats is Kronos Foods Incorporated, which was founded in Chicago in by a Greek man named Chris Tomaras. I honestly have no idea what he was thinking when he named his company, considering the fact that, in Greek mythology, the Titan Kronos is probably most famous for devouring his own children.
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