TRAV44@UMUC.BITNET (Alexandros Polymenopoulos) (02/06/90)
Osoi endiaferontai mporoun na xrisimopoiisoun tis parakato plirofories stis suzitiseis tous me tous Tourkous. "Western Thrace is Turkish and will remain Turkish .... Western Thrace should obtain its independence .... When the time comes our Western Thracian compatriots will consider either autonomy or independence" Diary published by the "European Association of Turks of Western Thrace", January 1981 "We intend to keep this district (W. Thrace) in Turkish hands and to include her as a single territorial entity at an appropriate time and opportinity within the borders of the mother country." A pamphlet of 32 pages entitled "The Lausanne Treaty and the Question of Western Thrace." August 1981. "Our aim is to keep Western Thrace in Turkish hands as a single geographical entity and the at the appropriate time and opportunity to have her unite with the mother country. We cannot accept the expropriation of this Turkish district. Our Western Thracian brothers should struggle in order to obtain independence and autonomy for Western Thrace." Pamphlet, distributed in October 1983 in Western Thrace by the Turkish Association "Solidarity of Turks of Western Thrace." "Some day, the people of Western Thrace will live in their own sovereign state." Statement by a Former Turkish Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs, Hasan Isik, DAILY NEWS, 9/5/84. "Whoever sends his children to the new high schools, which do not offer the appropriate religious education, will be turning his children into infidels .... We the Turks of Western Thrace, live under the shadow and the protection of Turkey's 50 million people.." Speech by the Mufti of Komotini at Kotili, 4/25/84. "Behind the minority there is the mother country .. And for you the days that God promised will come, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps even earlier than tomorrow." Message of the Mufti of Xanthi on the occasion of a Moslem religious celebration, 12/1/84. "The declaration of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus for us means that one more star has been added to the Islamic flag." Message of the Mufti of Xanthi on the occasion of a Moslem religious celebration, 12/16-17/83. "If the Greeks do not come to their senses, the Turkish Republic in Western Thrace will be born .... The fate of Cyprus is obvious. Now in Cyprus there are two independent States. Those who presently do not recognize the Turkish Republic of Cyprus, in the future will surely be obliged to recognize it ... The mistakes made by Greeks in Cyprus are being repeated in Western Thrace. If Greeks continue in the same fashion, they will soon be responsible for the formation of an independent Turkish State in Western Thrace." Press cutting from a Turkish newspaper that was distributed to the Moslems of Western Thrace by the son of the Mufti of Xanthi Agha Mehmet, 11/14/83. "We are Turks and we must struggle for union with Turkey even if this means spilling our blood." Moslem theologian, on the occasion of a Moslem festival in W. Thrace, 10/31/1983. "Call for the liberation of the native land (W. Thrace from the enemies who destroy it." Turkish language cassete circulated in Western Thrace in March 1981. "Song of revenge" (publication of a song demanding an outlet through Evros river, so that the Turkish armies may cross over to W. Thrace). Journal of Research of the Turkish World, No. 7, 1980. "If the Greeks are not careful ... there will be no Southern Cyprus, no Western Thrace, no Aegean and no continental shelf..." TERCUMAN, 4/26/1981. "Firstly the Turkish Republic of Western Thrace must be formed. Even the international projection of such a republic would cause great anxiety in Greece." Turkish journal YENI BATI TRAKYA (New Western Thrace), No. 13, 1984.
SAKAS@CIUC2.UC.RCCN.PT (Vassilis SAKAS) (02/07/90)
Ofeilw va kavw eva komplimevto: Parakoloythwvtas tis koybevtes sta scg (kai apo xtes sct) kathws kai tis plnrofories poy "reoyv" sto HELLAS peri twv ellnvotoyrkikwv tha nthela va paratnrisw to eksns: Stov eva xrovo peripoy poy kserw tis listes, moy faivetai oti eivai n prwtn fora poy toso orgavwmeva kai "epaggelmatika" divovtai apa- vtnseis stis "epitheseis" twv geitovwv mas. Plnthos plnroforiwv, apospasmatwv kai bontheias gevika divovtai stnv diathesn twv evdiferomevwv toso mesa apo to HELLAS oso kai apo proswpika mail (ap'oso gvwrizw). Mprabo se oloys kai oles loipov kai pavta tetoia kai kallitera.... Vassilis (Coimbra) YG: O "biasmos" leksewv mporei va eivai kamia fora pvveymmatwdns alla periexei kai tnv pagida tns paramorfwsns. Gia va mnv ksexvame loipov, gia prwtn fora sto veo etos pali eva QUIZ!! (ta loykoymia ta exei allos :-) ) : Ti eivai ta "araboyrgnmata" ? (Kai egw dev eimai sigoyros eav gvwrizw akoma tnv swstn evvoia toy oroy...) YG2: Vaggeli kaln stadiodromia. Pote avoigeis iatreio?? :-) ????