Some see the attacks as a continuation of a process of Turkification that started with the decline of the Ottoman Empire,as 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.