Denying human rights and ethnic identity : the Greeks of Turkey

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Label

Denying human rights and ethnic identity : the Greeks of Turkey

Title remainder

the Greeks of Turkey

Contributor

• Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.)
• Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.)

Subject

• Greeks -- Turkey
• Greeks -- Turkey
• Human rights -- Turkey
• Human rights -- Turkey
• Turkey -- Ethnic relations
• Turkey -- Ethnic relations

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Helsinki Watch report

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

A Helsinki Watch report