tsotras@GN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Panagiotis Tsiotras) (02/08/90)
To parakatw einai meros enos ar0rou me titlo " U.S. Relations and the
problems of the Aegean and Cyprus" apo to "Journal of Political and
Military Sociology" 1988, Vol. 16 (Fall): 215-233, kai pou anaferetai
stis meionotites sti D. 0paki. Einai grammeno apo ton Charles W. McCaskill
(retired foreign service officer U.S. Department of State).
Prosexte tin teleytaia protasi.
E. THE MINORITIES
" The minorities issue is another question on which we have kept our distance
but which, because of its underprinning in the Treaty of Lausanne, might be
susceptible to legal opinion. It is in fact hard to argue with the Greek
position that the numbers speak for themselves. The Muslim community of Thrace,
which numbered just over 100,000 in 1934, now is about 130,000; the Greek
Orthodox community of Istanbul, about 110,000 in 1934, is now said to be
less than 10,000 (Wilson, 1979-80: 17). The treatment of the Greeks of
Istanbul -- including the the government-orchestrated riots of 1955 and
the property decree of 1964 -- is one of those sad incidents of history
which, for political reasons, never received due notice. Over the years
successive governments of Greece have made special efforts to conform to
the letter of the Treaty of Lausanne though some abuses have almost
inevitably slipped in on the local level. And, as the State Department's
1987 Human Rigths report observed, "Tensions between Greece and Turkey
have made each country's perception of the treatment of its coreligionists
in the other country a sensitive issue, and both countries have viewed
human rights questions in light of historical and political
differences " (US Department of State, 1987 Country Reports on Human
Rights Practice, 931-32).
Professor Coufoudakis has perfectively observed that the Papagos
Goverment's action in implicitly granting ethnic minority status to the
Muslims of Thrace has come to haunt subsequent Greek governments
(Coufoudakis, 1985 :189). In the last year, Muslim minority associations
in Thrace were denied the use of the word "Turkish" to describe their
organizations on the grounds that the Treaty of Lausanne only recognizes
a Muslim minority (US Department of State, 1987 Country Reports on Human
Rights Practice :931).
This correct legal action of the Greek court did not escape the attention
of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs whose spokesman scored the action
as evidence of "a desire to deny the existence of a Turkish minority in
Western Thrace" (Ankara Domestic Service, January 7, 1988 in FBIS of same
date). The Human Rights Report conluded that "There is no evidence, however,
of a generalized pattern of political, religious, or cultural repression
of the Muslim community or a deliberate policy of discrimination by the
Greek Government"
[1] Wilson, Andrew "The Aegean Dispute", Adelphi Paper No. 155. London: The
International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1979-80: 17.
[2] Coufoudakis, Van "Greek-Turkish relations, 1973-1983: the view from
Athens". In International Security 9: 185-217
[3] US Department of State "Country reports on Human Rigths Practices" :927-932
[4] Federal Broadcast information Service (FBIS), 1987-88, Daily Report,
West Europe.
To idio teyxos exei kai alla endiaferonta ar0ra gia tis ellinotourkikes
sxeseis, kai isws ta paidia pou grafoun sto sct vroun arketa stoixeia.
Episeis gia opoion endiaferetai gia ta ar0ra tis syn0ikis tis Lauzanis
pou anaferontai stis meionotites, ka0ws kai gia mia analyisi tis sxesis twn
tourkwn me allous laous, mporei na rixei mia matia sta akolou0a ar0ra.
Nomizw oti einai poly katatopistika:
"The dialectics of turkish national identity: ethnic boundary maintenance and
state ideology" S.D. Salamore (Boston University)
Part I, East European Quarterly, XXIII, No. 1, March 1989. (pp. 33-61)
Part II, East European Quarterly, XXIII, No.2, June 1989. (pp. 225-248)
Filika,
Panagiotis Tsotras
Dept. of Aero/Astronautics
Purdue Un.
tsotras@gn.ecn.purdue.eduLIODAKIS@MCMASTER.BITNET (02/08/90)
Panagiwth an exeis perissotera stoixeia gia to journal pou aneferes steile mou ta (p.x call number) giati edw sto McMaster den erxetai. Endiaferomai amesa! eyxaristw ek twn proterwn liodakis@mcmaster