[PDF] Denying Human Rights And Ethnic Identity The Greeks Of Turkey eBook

Author : Lois Whitman
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781564320568

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Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 1992-01
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9780300056228

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The Greek community in Turkey is dwindling, elderly and frightened. Its population has declined from about 110,000 at the time of the signing of the Lausanne Treaty in 1923 to about 2,500 today. Its fearfulness stems from an appalling history of programs and expulsions suffered at the hands of the Turkish government. A Helsinki Watch mission visited Turkey in October 1991 and found that the government of Turkey continues to violate the human rights of the Greek minority today. These acts include harassment by police; restrictions on free expression; discrimination in education involving teachers, books and curriculum; restrictions on religious freedom; limitations on the right to control charitable institutions; and the denial of ethnic identity. All of these abuses violate international human rights laws and standards that have been signed or endorsed by the government of Turkey, including the European Convention on Human Rights and the Paris charter.

Author : Lois Whitman
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780929692708

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Author : Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (Organization : U.S.)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9781564321329

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Author : Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,96 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317997492

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Drawing upon anthropological studies that document culturally specific ways of perceiving ethic Others in Greece and Cyprus, this book explores the cultural boundaries of the categories ‘Greek’ and ‘Turk’, and compares views on what it means to be one of these ethnic groups or both. The contributors examine the opinions of diverse social groups, such as ordinary middle-class citizens, intellectuals, army officers, children, villagers, refugees from Asia Minor, and Greek-and-Turkisj-Cypriots. They also investigate the local attitudes to international politics and highlight the contextual – as opposed to immutable and essentialist – meaning of evaluations about nations, such as Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, and their citizens. When Greeks think about Turks carefully unpacks the cultural meaning of popular metaphors, stereotypes and versions of history as these are articulated in the context of discussions about the Turks in Greece. It sets the template for understanding how local perceptions of resemblance and difference provide a conceptual framework for defining and negotiating ethnic identity at the local, national and international level. It sheds valuable light on the politics of identity-making and the constitution of nationalism in Greece and Cyprus. This book was previously published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.

Author : Emine Yesim Bedlek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0857729977

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In 1923 the Turkish government, under its new leader Kemal Ataturk, signed a renegotiated Balkan Wars treaty with the major powers of the day and Greece. This treaty provided for the forced exchange of 1.3 million Christians from Anatolia to Greece, in return for 30,000 Greek Muslims. The mass migration that ensued was a humanitarian catastrophe - of the 1.3 million Christians relocated it is estimated only 150,000 were successfully integrated into the Greek state. Furthermore, because the treaty was ethnicity-blind, tens of thousands of Muslim Greeks (ethnically and linguistically) were forced into Turkey against their will. Both the Greek and Turkish leadership saw this exchange as crucial to the state-strengthening projects both powers were engaged in after the First World War. Here, Emine Bedlek approaches this enormous shift in national thinking through literary texts - addressing the themes of loss, identity, memory and trauma which both populations experienced. The result is a new understanding of the tensions between religious and ethnic identity in modern Turkey.