From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish,talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.europe,soc.rights.human
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Subject: Re: "Bayraktar/Omerye" mosques had been "totally vandalised" by Greeks.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 19:56:25 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <BxvBuJ.3x@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> iptsiant@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Panagiotis Tsiantopoulos) writes:

|> This report expresses in para. 6.c. that "Bayraktar" and "Omerye"
|> mosques had been "totally vandalised" by the Greeks and that their
|> minarets had been destroyed by them.
|> 

>This means there are or were mosques in that area. How many greek-orthodox 
>churches are there in Turkey (which are not used as museums, but as churches) ?

That is the result of watching 'sipa of delco' too much. 
There are in Turkiye the Greek Hospital, The Greek Girls' 
Lycee Alumni Association, the Principo Islands Greek Benevolent 
Society, the Greek Medical Foundation, the Principo Greek 
Orphanage Foundation, the Yovakimion Greek Girls' Lycee 
Foundation, and the Fener Greek Men's Lycee Foundation.  

As for Greece, the longstanding use of the adjective 'Turkish' 
in titles and on signboards is prohibited. The Greek courts 
have ordered the closure of the Turkish Teachers' Association, 
the Komotini Turkish Youth Association and the Ksanti 
Turkish Association on grounds that there are no Turks
in Western Thrace. Such community associations had been 
active until 1984. But they were first told to remove
the word 'Turkish' on their buildings and on their official
papers and then eventually close down. This is also the 
final verdict (November 4, 1987) of the Greek High Court.

Moreover, the 'Greek Connection' is the most important 
route to distribute the narcotics from the Middle East 
to Europe and the United States. The Armenian terrorists 
transport the narcotics from the Middle East to Southern 
Cyprus. From there the narcotics are distributed either 
through the Greek or Armenian nationalists or sympathizers
to Italy and France and from there to the east and west
coasts of the United States. 

The most significant aspect of the 'Greek Connection' is
probably the use (or misuse) of innocent people of Greek
origin to transport the narcotics. According to court records
and well informed sources some of the most significant bosses
of the narcotic mafia are Armenians living in Greece. 

There is a close working relationship between the Armenian 
terrorists and the Greek governments. The sad fact is that 
the 'clown-ians' are well aware of these connections but do 
not take any action. The people of Turkiye is a group protected 
by the Turkish constitution and the international law. However, the 
governments of Greece cannot camouflage an elaborate governmental and 
administrative system of racial discrimination and harassment against 
the Turks living in that country. 

Various items of irrefutable evidence indicate that the Greek 
authorities have violated the country's obligations by persistently
following a policy of oppression aimed at the Muslim Turkish
Minorities from Western Thrace.

This fact is acknowledged not only by Turks, but by several
prominent Europeans such as Professor Erik Siesby (who submitted
a paper along these lines to the Minority Rights Conference in
Copenhagen, March-April 1990) or the spokesmen (including Yuri
Orlov, the founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group) for the 
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights.

The Greek authorities deny even the existence of a Turkish
minority. They pursue the same denial in connection with
the Macedonians of Greece.

The Greeks deny the existence of the Turks there - despite
the well-known historical background, ethnic origin, mother
tongue and other cultural affiliations.

Furthermore, Helsinki Watch, a well-known Human Rights 
group, had been investigating the plight of the Turkish 
Minority in Greece. In August 1990, their findings were 
published in a report titled 

 'Destroying Ethnic Identity: Turks of Greece.'

The report confirmed gross violations of the Human Rights of 
the Turkish minority by the Greek authorities.

Serdar Argic

                     'This war quickly developed into one of extermination. 
                      We closed the roads and mountain passes that might 
                      serve as ways of escape for the Tartars [Turks] and 
                      then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
                                                       (Ohanus Appressian)

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