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No Turks Live In Greece

Postby zan » Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:12 am

June 18th - Bakoyannis "No Turks Live In Greece"!
By David Edenden

Just as it is illegal in Greece to call yourself a Macedonian, in the ethnic sense, it is also illegal to call yourself Turkish. Greece has been a member of the EU since 1981. The Macedonian and Turkish minorities should sue the EU for reparations payments.
Athens to appeal EU Thrace ruling:
ekathimerini.com |

Bokayannis:

My hands are really dirty and my finger nails are cracked because of my never ending effort to destroy the ethnic identity of the Macedonian and Turkish minority in Greece!

When Barack Obama is president, I will get all the help I need!





Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis said yesterday that Greece would appeal a decision by the European Court of Human Rights allowing two groups in a Muslim-populated region of northern Greece to define themselves as “Turkish.”

“After careful consideration, Greece has decided to appeal the ruling,” Bakoyannis told a press conference without elaborating.

The Strasbourg-based court ruled in March that Greece had violated European provisions on freedom of assembly and association by banning two groups calling themselves the Xanthi Turkish Union and the Rodopi Cultural Association of Turkish Women. In an earlier ruling, Greece’s Supreme Court had banned the two associations which it accused of seeking to promote “Turkish ideas.”

Greece recognizes the existence of a Muslim minority in Thrace but says calling this minority Turkish is inaccurate and a potential threat to democratic stability.

Bakoyannis also responded yesterday to comments by the president of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) earlier this week according to which the neighboring country will not accept any change to its language and national identity. “We will not be drawn into a new discussion which may eventually lead to the negotiating process being distracted from its aim,” Bakoyannis said, stressing once again that the purpose of ongoing talks is to arrive at a “mutually acceptable solution on the name issue.”

FYROM President Branko Crvenkovski on Tuesday said his country should “reassess its stance on the dual name formula and make some kind of concession,” but added that Skopje would not budge on issues of language and identity. United Nations mediator Matthew Nimetz is due to visit Athens and Skopje next week in a bid to advance negotiations on the name.
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Postby Oracle » Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:17 am

Comparing like for like, no Turks live in the UK either .... they are termed British!

Here are some of the great privileges enjoyed by them, which are denied other minorities in Turkey ...

http://www.hri.org/news/greek/misc/96-04-06.mgr.html

........... But what has this to do with the Cyprus Problem ? ....scraping the bottom of the barrel, Zan! :roll:
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Postby zan » Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:18 am

Oracle wrote:Comparing like for like, no Turks live in the UK either .... they are termed British!

Here are some of the great privileges enjoyed by them, which are denied other minorities in Turkey ...

http://www.hri.org/news/greek/misc/96-04-06.mgr.html

........... But what has this to do with the Cyprus Problem ? ....scraping the bottom of the barrel, Zan! :roll:


See whats in store for us Oracle!!!!! :evil:
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Postby Oracle » Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:25 am

zan wrote:
Oracle wrote:Comparing like for like, no Turks live in the UK either .... they are termed British!

Here are some of the great privileges enjoyed by them, which are denied other minorities in Turkey ...

http://www.hri.org/news/greek/misc/96-04-06.mgr.html

........... But what has this to do with the Cyprus Problem ? ....scraping the bottom of the barrel, Zan! :roll:


See whats in store for us Oracle!!!!! :evil:


Yes I see your concern! .... Turkey might treat the TC minority of "north" Cyprus as badly as it treats all the minorities in Turkey! :lol:
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Postby zan » Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:27 am

Oracle wrote:
zan wrote:
Oracle wrote:Comparing like for like, no Turks live in the UK either .... they are termed British!

Here are some of the great privileges enjoyed by them, which are denied other minorities in Turkey ...

http://www.hri.org/news/greek/misc/96-04-06.mgr.html

........... But what has this to do with the Cyprus Problem ? ....scraping the bottom of the barrel, Zan! :roll:


See whats in store for us Oracle!!!!! :evil:


Yes I see your concern! .... Turkey might treat the TC minority of "north" Cyprus as badly as it treats all the minorities in Turkey! :lol:


I am beginning to think that you are not the original Oracle.....You sound more and more stupid by the second......Bring back Stella...What have you done with her...Has DT finally sacked her and got you to replace her??? :o :o
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