Bozur
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Post by Bozur on Feb 17, 2005 17:03:51 GMT -5
Muslim union to contest ban A Greek Muslim group banned by the country’s highest civil court this month on grounds of national security for calling itself Turkish has said it will appeal the decision at the European Court of Human Rights. “Following the publication of the official ruling, the Turkish Union of Xanthi... shall apply to the European Court of Human Rights in search of justice which has been denied to it within Greece,” the group said in a statement dated January 19, obtained by AFP yesterday. The statement is co-signed by 12 other Greek Muslim groups, including its issuer, the “Consultative Committee of the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace.” Thrace is home to a 100,000-strong Muslim, Turkish-speaking community that has often been a source of friction between Greece and Turkey. Athens recognizes the community as Muslim but not as ethnically Turkish, citing the international 1923 Treaty of Lausanne that established modern Turkey. Established in 1927, the Turkish Union of Xanthi numbers some 2,400 members. www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=52120
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Post by Bozur on Feb 17, 2005 17:46:08 GMT -5
Thrace minority ruling draws Rum ban bid Four days after reports that Greece’s Supreme Court upheld a ban against a Muslim minority association for using the term “Turkish” in its title, a group in Turkey has called on Ankara to make it illegal for groups to call themselves “Greek,” the Athens News Agency said yesterday. The League for the Supremacy of Justice wrote to the Turkish Interior Ministry, the ANA reported from Ankara, arguing that since the Greek court ruled that allowing the use of the term “Turkish” would imply the existence of a minority, the same should should apply in Turkey. They also demanded that organizations be banned from using the term “Rum,” deriving from “Romios” — what Byzantine Greeks called themselves. The Greek decision to ban the Turkish Union of Xanthi, revealed on Thursday but not yet officially announced, was taken on the grounds of national security, reports said. www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=51881
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