From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish,talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.europe,soc.history
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Subject: Greece: The black sheep of EC.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 18:35:08 EDT
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <1992Sep28.193356.20665@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> branis@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Spiros Branis) writes:

>The President of the European University Eleni Ahweiller expressed
>the view Saturday that Turkey might become a member of the EC after

No kidding. Greek Governments have enormous problems to tackle. 
The economy is in shambles, corruption is rampant, air pollution 
is in outrageous dimensions, state-sponsored terrorism is the name 
of the game and infrastructure is decaying. 

Another insightful article in the New York Times (Sunday, April 7) 
exposes the dirty linen of Greece, and describes her as the pariah 
of the European Community. The article reports that ''...with 
un-European antics, Greece uses the Community as a cash register. 
She squanders, and at times even steals the European tax payers' 
money for political featherbedding at home. The principal members 
of the Community admit that it was a mistake to accept Greece to 
the European Community.'' This affirmation is testimony to the fact 
that notwithstanding her geographic location, Greece is un-European
in mentality and attitude. 

Wait, there is more.

Source: Professor Stanford J. Shaw, 'The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the
        Turkish Republic,' New York University Press, New York (1991).

 page 203:

  <<The leader of the Ashkenazi community of Corlu complained to the
  president of AIU [Alliance Israelite Universelle] in 1902 about
  persistent Greek attacks against its Jewish quarter:

    ''The fanatic Greeks of our city, as of other places in Thrace,
    have the habit of, contrary to the spirit of real Christianity,
    making a replica of Judas Iscariote and of burning it on the night
    of Holy Saturday. They construct a wooden figure, cover it with
    clothing which they claim is that of the ancient Jews, and they
    burn it publicly in the middle of a multitude of the ignorant and
    the fanatic. It often happens that this multitude, already excited
    by the tales of the suffering of Christ that has been made to them
    at the Church, is exaulted at the appearance of the execution of he
    who is supposed to have betrayed Christ, and works up a great anger
    against the Jews...For a long time we have known that each year,
    on such a day, they will cut off the heads and arms of the corpses
    in our cemetery and will burn them with great solemnity. We make
    no complaint about this in order not to create differences between
    the two communities. But this audacious madness of these fanatics
    has increased. We ourselves see the flames and hear the cries of
    hatred and vengeance against the Jews.''[42]>>

[42] Ashkenazi Community, Corlu, to AIU no.8783, 2 May 1902, in AIU
     Archives (Paris) II C 8, with report printed in El Tiempo of 1 May 1902.

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)