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Heinous attack on the Turkish war cemetery in Athens-Piraeus!
28.03.2011
On 25 March 2011 early in the morning, the Turkish war cemetery in Athens-Piraeus was attacked by an unidentified person or group of persons, who dumped paint and wrote racist slogans on the grave markers of Turkish martyrs. The Spokesman of the Greek Government George Petalotis condemned the attack in a written statement and said that that hein...
Greece Vows to Solve Muslim Problems
23.02.2011
Being the first Greek premier to visit a Muslim village, Prime Minister George Papandreou has vowed to address problems facing the Muslim minority in Greece. "Our government is exerting efforts to make sure that the Muslim minority is subjected to no discrimination and to eliminate the mindset of the past in Western Thrace," Papandreou said, acc...
EU member states continue to override rights of minorities
17.09.2010
On 17 September 2010, Pelagon (News from Macedonia), has claimed that it is not only France that tramples minority rights, but Greece is also problematic in the field of minority rights, in the press item entitled “Minority rights in the EU- France is not alone”. It is stated in the item that that it is amazing how arrogant some countries treat...
U.S. Department of State released the 2009 Human Rights Report on Greece
12.03.2010
On 11 March 2010, the U.S. Department of State released the 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, thereunder the report on Greece. Under the title of freedom of speech and press, the report presents that members of the Muslim minority in Thrace stated that the Greek media law discriminated against smaller, independent, Turkish-language...
Greek Government repeats the official state thesis on the issue of the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace
26.11.2009
During an interview he gave to the “Real News” daily on 22 November 2009,* the Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas replied to the question, in relation to the expected meeting between the Greek Prime Minister and Foreign Minister George Papandreou and the Prime Minister of Turkey, R. Tayyip Erdogan, whether Greece was discussing minorit...
U.S. Department of State released its Religious Freedom Report 2009 on Greece
27.10.2009
On 26 October 2009, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the U.S. Department of State released its International Religious Freedom Report 2009 on Greece. It is stated in the report that an officially recognized Muslim minority of 100,000 to 120,000 members resides in Thrace, and the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne gives the Muslim minority t...
Two Turkish hopefuls secure Greek parliament seats
05.10.2009
Ahmet Hacıosman and Çetin Mandacı from the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, or PASOK, will represent the Turkish minority in the new Greek Parliament, Anatolia news agency reported Monday. Fourteen candidates of Turkish descent were nominated in Sunday’s general election, mainly in Rhodope and Xanthi, but only Hacıosman and Mandaci, both from the...
Turkey as the issue of early election debates
23.09.2009
The dispute about Turkey became the issue of debates with regard to the early general elections which will take place in Greece on 4 Oktober 2009. On election posters or on live discussion programmes with all political party leaders, vivid discussions are arising related to the issue of Turkey in the Greek foreign policy and Greece’s attitude towa...
CERD announced the Concluding Observations on Greece adopted at its 75th session
15.09.2009
On 15 September 2009, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) released the Concluding Observations adopted at its 75th session held in Geneva from 8 to 28 August 2009. Regarding the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace, the Committee notes that the Muslim minority in Western Thrace consists of the ethnic groups of Turks, ...
ECRI released the 4th country report on Greece
15.09.2009
On 15 September 2009, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) released the 4th country report on Greece. The Commission explained that worrying problems were still continuing even though Greece had announced to make encouraging development. ECRI notes with concern that problems, which arised from the deprivation of citize...
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