Some see the attacks as a continuation of a process of Turkification that started with the decline of the Ottoman Empire , rather than being a contemporary , bilateral issue . To back this claim they adduce the fact that roughly 40 % of the properties attacked belonged to other minorities . The pogrom has been compared in some media to the '' Kristallnacht '' , the 1938 pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany . Historian Alfred-Maurice de Zayas has written that in his view , despite the small number of deaths in the pogrom , the riots met the " intent to destroy in whole or in part " criterion of the Genocide Convention
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Istanbul pogrom