In the meantime, football may have saved Kucukandonyadis's life in 1955, when Turkish mobs -- angered by the fake news reports that the house where Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was born in Greece, had been bombed -- rioted against the Greek minorities in Istanbul, causing vast damage to their property from which the community never fully recovered.
Istovremeno, fudbal mu je verovatno spasao život 1955, kada je turska rulja, besna zbog lažnih vesti da je na kuću u Grčkoj u kojoj je rođen utemeljivač Turske Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, bačena bomba, napala pripadnike grčke manjine u Istanbulu i nanela im veliku materijalnu štetu od koje se Grci nikada nisu u potpunosti oporavili.