Muğlalı incident

Gendarmerie units sent to the border upon a tip that the Milan tribe, some of whom live on Iranian territory, abducted a large herd of animals in July 1943, could not catch the smugglers because they fled to Iran.

Even though a villager who survived the incident with injuries managed to announce the situation to the relevant authorities, no results could be obtained from the applications made.

Upon the adoption of a parliamentary question submitted to the Presidency of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, an investigation was launched against the military and civilian administrators regarding the incident.

Muğlalı, who said that he gave the order for the shooting in the case where all the defendants were held in pre-trial detention at the General Staff Military Court, was sentenced to death on March 2, 1950, and then to 20 years in prison due to his advanced age and extenuating circumstances.

Upon the CHP's claim that "discrimination was made against minorities" during the Istanbul pogrom, the incident was brought up again in the Parliament as a retaliation by the Democratic Party.