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- From: trevore@vast.unsw.edu.au (Trevor Elbourne (Supr. Hell) BE)
- Subject: Re: Turkish minority in Greece ????
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:31:20 GMT
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- vh@cs.columbia.edu (Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou) writes:
- : In article <1go0g8INN6aj@TERMINATOR.AI.CS.YALE.EDU> tsiout%thailand@cs.yale.edu (Dimitris Tsioutsias) writes:
- : >So, you that support the above view, can you tell me how is it
- : >then than an "oppressed" minority in Greece can elect 2 representatives
- : >into the greek parliament? How many Armenians or Kurds does the
- :
- : That was a mistake... proper care has been taken so that embarassing
- : minority MPs will not be elected again.
- :
- : >turkish parliament have? Since Kurds are 20% of the Turkish population
- : >I would expect a reasonable number between 12-30, right??
- : >
- : >
- : >->dimitris
- :
- : Comparison with the far worse record of Turkey does not exonerate Greece;
- : it is a shame that a country with such a glorious history of civilization
- : cannot come to terms with respecting human rights for minorities, but
- : instead denies them things as their ethnic identity. This kind of short-
- : sighted policy was a much more important factor in alienating the Turkish/
- : Muslim minority and elevating to prominence uncompromising fanatics such
- : as Sadik than any encouragement from the turkish side.
-
- Oh come on. It's been beated to death. In the reasent human rights
- reports Greece is praised for it's respect for the human rights in Greece.
- To add to that a special note is made on the much improved conditions
- of the muslem minorities. Also mentioned is critsism made to the USA for
- turning a blind eye to Turkey and supplying aid contrary to their statment that
- they wont supply to countries that abuse human rights. What the muslems are
- called is a matter settled in the Lausane treaty for obvious reasons. They
- were called muslems because they alot don't identify them selves as Turks.
- Officialy then as a group they are considered as Muslems. The books are
- provided by the Turkish goverment (which only recently has bothered to send
- them before the middle of the term !!!). What more should Greece do ?
- Call them Turks !!! Wow that sounds quite stupid. It's like asking for
- trouble the muslems probably don't want anyway. They live MUCH better
- than the Turks in Turkey (let alone any other minority)
-
-
- :
- :
- : - Vasilis.
- :
- A re Vasili, read a report by Amnesty internationsal, or any other
- world recognised human rights report and find out independantly by you
- self.
- George
-